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gestating 160 days. In six weeks the young can shift for them+ 
selves, and the mother drives them off. They can procreate ere 
they are a year old, and live ten or fifteen years. One is usually 
produced at a birth, in cavities of the rocks. Gall-bladder con- 
stant. 
The taal-gland of the Musk is very large, and covers the whole 
tail nearly, and has a linear, longitudimal pore on each side, and 
an abundant secretion. 
The preputial gland of the Musk is analogous to that of the 
Civets and the Screw-tail (Paradoxurus); it is placed on the 
prepuce, the penis opening in the midst of it: this organ is 
clearly subservient to sexual purposes, and so probably are seve- 
ral others, though the eye-pits have been variously referred to 
the facilitation of breathing and of smelling. The supposed end 
of the interdigital glands and pores, or feet-pits, viz. the lubrica- 
tion of the feet and preservation of the hoofs in hot sandy de- 
serts, is clearly erroneous, since the Thar has these organs of 
enormous size in all the four extremities, though it be the tenant 
of moist, cool mountain forests. It is probable that the secre- 
tion from the foot-pores enables these animals to find one an- 
other in those wildernesses of vast forest-trees and dense under- 
rowth which constitute their range.— Hodgson. 
The Musk is said to derive its peculiar odoriferous secretion 
from feeding on the Kastooree plant, a kind of ground-nut which 
is strongly impregnated with the same pungent scent, and which 
the animal digs up with its long tusk.—Ogilby in Royle, Himal. 
i. Ixxi. 
1. Moscuus Sipiricus. The KuBARGA. 
Ash brown, beneath paler. Throat black or ashy, with a de- 
finite white streak on each side. 
Animal Moschiferum Kubarga dicta, J. G. Gmelin, Nov. Com. 
Petrop. iv. 393. 
Moschus Sibiricus, Pallas, Spic. Zool. xiii. 29. t. 4,5,6; Gray, 
Cat. Mamm. B. M. 172; List Osteol. Spec. 63; Knowsley 
Menag. 
Moschus moschiferus, Schreb. Saugth. 944. t. 242, 242a; Shaw, 
Lever. Mus. i. t. 32; Wrangle’s Siberia, 374. 
Moschus moschiferus var. Altaici, Sundevall. 
Moschus Altaicus, Eschsch. Jobst. Isis, 1830, 606; Fér. Bull. 
Sci. xxii. 46. 
Hab. Siberia; Altai Mountams; Lake Baikal; Gmelin. Bor- 
ders of Arctic Ocean; Wrangle. Mongolia, Eschsch. 
Male and female. Siberia. From the Museum of the Roya 
Academy of Petersburg. 
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