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THE TH1BETIAW 



Moschus moschifems. LINNJE-TI, 

 PLATE III. 



Le Muse, Buffon, Cuvier Moschus moschiferus, Linn. Ha- 

 milton Smith, &c Thibetian Musk, Pennant, Shav* 



THE Thibetian Musk is the celebrated animal 

 which produces the substance called Musk. The 

 specimen in the Royal Museum of the University 

 of Edinburgh, from which our plate was taken, is 

 about the size of a small roebuck, scarcely standing 

 so high upon the legs, and having a thicker and 

 more clumsy-looking body. It is entirely of a deep 

 reddish-brown, paler beneath, and on the inside of the 

 legs. The hair is of great length and thickness; crisp 

 and curled like that of the true deer, and without 

 any woolly or downy substance at the roots ; it is 

 sometimes raritd witn white. The canine teeth are 

 longer in this than in any of the other forms, assuming 

 the form of flat and cutting recurved tusks, which 

 are visible for an inch outside the mouth. The 

 hoofs are long, and assist while the animal is climb- 

 ing upon the precipices among which it delights to 

 dwell. Its habits, in fact, are similar to the Cha- 



