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the same character should not be developed in the antelopes. Its hair 
is more of the goat than the deer, and the total absence of horns 
removes a decided proof in favour of one or the other. The feet are 
more like some of the Bovide than the generality of deer, with the 
exception, perhaps, of angzfer (the reindeer), the toes being very 
much cloyen and capable of grasping the rocky ground on which it is 
found. A very eminent authority, however, Professor Flower, is in 
favour of placing the musk-deer with the Cervidze, and he instances 
the absence of horns as in favour of this opinion, for in none of the 
Bovidz are the males hornless. ‘There are many other points also, 
such as the fawns being spotted, some intestinal peculiarities, and the 
molar and pre-molar teeth being strictly cervine, which strengthen him 
in his opinion. (See article on the structure and affinities of the musk- 
deer, P: Z,.'S. £879, p: £59:) 
GENUS MOSCHUS—THE MUSK DEER. 
Canines in both sexes, very long and slender in the male ; no horns ; 
feet much cloven, with large false hoofs that touch the ground; the 
Moschus meoschiferus. 
medium Metacarpels fused into a solid cannon bone; in the skull the 
intermaxillaries join the nasals ; hinder part of tarsus hairy ; fur thick, 
