THE STANLEYAN CHEVROTAIN. 



(Jan. 11, 1890.) 



THE Chevrotains are a group of very curious and 

 extremely beautiful little animals, much like 

 diminutive deer, which until quite recently were 

 classed, with the musk-deer, among the true deer, 

 but are now placed in a family Tragulina by 

 themselves, between the Tylopoda, or camel tribe, 

 and the Pecora, or oxen, antelopes, deer, and 

 giraffe. Like the musk-deer itself a doubtful 

 deer, by the way with which they were formerly 

 classed, both sexes are hornless, and, as is the 

 case with that animal, and also with the muntjacs, 

 the males have two long canine teeth in the 

 upper jaw, which project from the mouth with 

 a backward curve, and form very noticeable 

 tusks. One remarkable difference, however, exists 

 between the chevrotains and the musk-deer 

 namely, that the former do not possess the pecu- 

 liar secretion, contained in a pouch about the 

 size of an egg on the abdomen, of the male, 

 which was formerly used as a drug, but is now 

 a valuable article of trade as a perfume, for which 

 the latter animal is famous ; and this fact made 



