114 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
-Head of Musk-Deer. 
The MUSK-DEER, or KASTURA (Moschus moschiferus). 
She-/u, Chinese. Kastura, Kashmiri. 
From all living deer except the Chinese water-deer this species is 
distinguished by the absence of antlers, whose function as weapons is dis- 
charged in the male by long upper tusks. The tail is rudimentary and the 
fur coarse and brittle, while the lateral hoofs are very large. The males 
have a glandular pouch which secretes the musk from which the species 
takes its name. Height at shoulder about 20 inches, at rump 22 inches. 
Distribution.—The forest-districts of the Himalaya as far west as Gilgit, 
at elevations of 8000 feet or more in summer, to Tibet, Siberia, 
Western China, and Amurland. 
Length of Tusk 
on outside curve. Ee el Owner. 
Kashmir : - : . - . Major H. C. Tytler. 
exposed from gum 
-4 Ta Chin lu . : : : : : M. Mitchell. 
38 Gurhwal : : : : . Capt. G. W. Burton. 
—34 Do. : : : : : . Dr. Albert von Stephani. 
—33 Chitral . : : : : : 5 dis its tel, Jeane: 
3 Upper Kumaon . 3 ; : . Capt. Kk. Channer. 
3 Gurhwal ; : 3 : : -) A. ©! eumie: 
3 Amurland . : : : : . British Museum. 
24 Kashmir ; , : : ; . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 
— Owner's measurements. 
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