Game Animals of India, etc. 



chocolate-brown, the hairs on the fore part of the body 

 having brown tips with a white ring below, whereas 

 farther back this white ring is absent. Consequently 

 the region of the shoulders is finely speckled, but the 

 hind-quarters are uniformly coloured. The crest forms 

 a nearly black horse-shoe on the forehead, bordered 

 above each eye by a line of grey ; the ears show a 

 large amount of white internally and on the inner 

 margin, and the lower surface of the tail and the inner 

 sides of the thighs and buttocks are likewise white. 



This little deer inhabits the mountains of Moupin, 

 in Eastern Tibet, but is replaced in the east of China 

 by a closely allied species, of which the head is shown 

 in fig. 49, while another representative of the group 

 inhabits the mountains bordering the Ichang valley. 



THE KASTURA, OR MUSK-DEER 



{^Moschus moschiferus) 



Native Names. — Kastura and Mushk^ Hindustani ; 

 Raos OR Rons^ Kashmiri ; ha and Lawa, 

 Tibetan ; Ribjo^ Ladaki ; Bena and Masakneba 

 IN Garhwal and Kumaon. 



(Plate vii, fig. 5) 



As the animal now to be discussed is very different 

 from true deer, and is only admitted within the family 

 Cervidc€ on sufferance, it would be better if it were 

 called either by its Hindustani name of kastura, or 

 simply musk, dropping altogether the affix " deer," but 

 custom is hard to overcome, and since the name musk- 

 deer is current, it would be hopeless to attempt its 

 abbreviation. 



From all the true deer mentioned in this volume 

 musk-deer differ by the absence of antlers in both 

 sexes ; but as a similar feature also obtains in the case 



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