MUSK DEER.—Moschus Moschiferus. 
Audubon were most mischievous creatures. They would jump into his study window, and 
when the sashes were shut would leap through glass and woodwork like harlequin in a 
pantomime. ‘They ate the covers of his books, nibbled his papers, and scattered them in 
sad confusion, gnawed the carriage-harness, cropped all the choice garden plants, and 
finally took to biting off the heads and feet of the due klings and chickens. 
The skin of the Carjacou is peculiarly valuable to the hunter, for when properly 
dressed and smoked, it becomes as pliable as a kid glove, and does not shrivel or harden 
when subjected to the action of water. Of this material are formed the greater part of 
the native Indian’s apparel, and it is also employed for various articles of civ ilized raiment. 
As the Carjacou feeds, it always shakes its tail before it lowers or raises its head. So 
by watching the movement of the tail, the hunter knows when he, may move towards his 
intended prey, and when he must le perfectly quiet. So truly indicative of the animal 
is this habit, that when an Indian wishes to signal to another that he sees a Carjacou, he 
moves his fore-finger up and down. This sign is invariably understood by all the tribes 
of North American Indians. 
THE Moschine Deer are readily known by the absence of horns in both sexes, the 
extremely long canine teeth of the upper jaw in the males, and the powerfully odorous 
secretion in one of the species, from which they derive their popular as well as their 
scientific title. There are at least eight or nine species of these curious animals. 
The most celebrated of these little Dee yr, is the common Musk DEgER, which is a native of 
the northern parts of India, and is found spread throughout a very large range of country, 
always preferring the cold and elevated mountainous regions. The height of the adult 
Musk Deer is about two feet three inches at the shoulders; the colour is light brown, 
marked with a shade of greyish-yellow. Inhabiting the rocky and mountainous locations 
of its native home, it is remarkably active and surefooted, rivalling even the chamois or 
the goat in the agility with which it can ascend or descend the most fearful prec ipices 
The oreat leneth of the false hoofs adds much to the sec urity of the Musk Deer's footing 
upon the crags. 
Las only in the male that the long tusks are seen, and that the perfume called musk 
is secreted. The tusks are sometimes as much as three inches in length, and therefore 
