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in either sex. The false hoofs are distinct, although denied to the 

 animal both by Linnseus and BufFon. 



The third and last subdivision is characterized by Mr. Gray, under 

 the name of Tragulus, as having the hinder edge of the metatarsus 

 nearly bald and slightly callous, a character which distinguishes them 

 at once from all other Ruminants ; the fur is soft, and adpressed like 

 that of Meminna, but not spotted even when young ; the throat is 

 provided with a somewhat naked, concave, subglandular, callous disk, 

 placed between the rami of the lower jaw, from which a band ex- 

 tends to the fore part of the chin ; and they have no musk-bag. 

 Like all the other species of the Linnean genus Moschus, they have 

 false hoofs ; and most of them have the edges of the lower jaw, 

 three diverging bands on the chest, and the under surface of the 

 body more or less purely white. The species of this division scarcely 

 differ in colour in the various stages of their gi-owth ; the young 

 fawn resembling the adult in every particular except in size. 



In this division, the synonymy of which is extremely confused, 

 Mr. Gray reckons four species, two of which he describes as new, 

 aiTanging and characterizing them as follows : 



MoscHTJS Javanicus. Mosch. ferrugineus nigra variegatus ; collo 

 saturate brunneo griseo nebulato ; menti margine, strigis pec- 

 toralibus tribus postice latioribus, pecto7-e, abdomine, femoribus 

 interne, cauddque subtus, albis ; pedibus, capitis lateribus, prym- 

 fidque nitidefulvis ; occipite nigresccnti. Long. corp. capitisc^ue 

 simul poll. 24 ; metatarsi 4l poll. 

 Moschus Javanicus, Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. p. 174. ex Pallasio. 

 Raffles in Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 261 ? Benn., Zool. Gard., p. 41. 

 Tragulus Javanicus, Pall., Spic. Zool. xii. p. 18. in notd. 

 Moschus Indicus, Gmel., Syst. Nat. \. p. 172. 

 Cervus Javanicus, Osbeck, Iter, p. 273. 

 Moschus Napu, F. Cuv. Mamm. t. 

 Chota Beta, Rou de Ramon, Cab. Madr. t. 9. 

 Hab. in Insulis Java et Sumatra. 



This species, Mr. Gray states, is at once known by its larger size, 

 pale colour, and the white of the entire under surface of the body, 

 with the exception of the two longitudinal dusky stripes which sepa- 

 rate the three white stripes of the chest from each other, and of a 

 simple narrow pale band across the chest. 



2. Moscnus Kanchil. Mosch. fidvus, nigrescenti variegatus; nu- 

 cha strigd latd nigrd tongitudinali; guld, colli corporisque lateribus, 

 pallide flavescentibus, pilis nigro-apiculatis ; antipedibus nitide 

 fulvis ; menti marginibus, strigis tribus pectorulibus, pectore, 

 abdomine, femoribus postici, cauddque subtus, albis ; pectore ab- 

 domineque strigd longitudinali, in illo saturatiore, in hoc palli- 

 diore. Long, capitis corporisque simul poll. 20 ; metatarsi 3-i- 

 poll. 

 Moschus Kanchil, Raffles in Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 262. 

 Le Chevrotain adulte, Buffon, Hist. Nat. tom. xii. p. 344. 

 Le Chevrotain de Java, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl. torn. vi. p. 219. 

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