244 MAMMALIA. 
OsTEOLOGY. . 
Skull of male. Siberia. From the Museum of the Royal 
Academy of St. Petersburgh. 
Skull of female. Siberia. From the Museum of the Royal 
Academy of St. Petersburgh. ' 
The Musk Deer are found nearly to the arctic circle; they are 
abundant near Verkhoiansk in North Siberia (Lat. 67° 7', E. 
Long. 134°), and called Kabarga. A pound of musk is com- 
monly sold from 10 to 15 roubles.—Wrangle’s Siberia and Po- 
lar Sea, by Sabine, 374, 1844. 
2. MoscuHvus MoscHIFERUS. The Musk. 
Dark brown, chest and belly rather paler. Throat and chest 
with indistinct, pale cross bands. 
Moschus moschiferus, Linn. S. N. i. 91; Gray, List Mamm. B. 
M.172; List Osteol. Sp. B. M. 62,63; List Hodgson Col- 
lection, 30. 
Animal moschiferum, Raiz Quad. 124; Caleot. Mus. 661. t. 666. 
Capreolus Moschus, Gesner, Quad. 695; Jonston, Quad. 55. t. 39. 
Capra moschus, Aldrov. Bisule. 743. 
Muskus, &e., Ysdr. Reis. 45. fig. 
Musk, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xu. 361, Supp. vi. 221. t. 29. 
Moschus, Schrek. Monag. t. 44. 
Caprea moschifera, Seger. Misc. Acad. Nat. Cur. i. 169. Obs. 
128. t. 11. 
Tragulus moschiferus, KJezn. 
Tibet Musk, Penn. Syn. 56. t. 10. f. 1; Quad. 1.112. t.12. f. 1. 
Moschus saturatus, Hodgson, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, viii. 203, x. 
yh Ms SAE BE Be 
Moschus Kacharensis, Hodgson, Cat. MSS. v. t. 3. 
Moschus Moschus var., Ogilby in Royle, Himal. 1. uXX1. 
Musk ?, Falconer, Journ. Asiat. Soc. iv. 710. 
Hab. Thibet; Nepal. 
Male (in bad state). India. Presented by Gen. Hardwicke. 
A flat hunter’s skin. India. Presented by Gen. Hardwicke. 
Male (in bad state). India. 
Female. Nepal. Presented by the Hon. East India Company. 
Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
‘wo specimens from Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 
Esq. 
A male, brownish and dark. Nepal. Presented by B. H. 
Hodgson, Esq. 
A male, with a dark streak on the nape, and a large dark spot 
between the shoulders. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, 
Esq. | 
