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THE NAPU MUSK. 

 Moschus Javanicue. RAFFLES. 



PLATE IV. 

 Moschus Javanicua, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. 



IN Griffith's Synopsis of Quadrupeds, five species 

 of these pretty little animals are described. Mr 

 Bennett, in the " Gardens of the Zoological Society," 

 however, makes only four; and in our present state of 

 knowledge we are inclined to follow this naturalist. 

 With the exception of the Moschus Memina, a native 

 of Ceylon, and distinguished from the others by the 

 spots, they are all natives of Java and Sumatra, and 

 are closely allied, the synonymy of the one being often 

 applied to the others. Our present figure is reduced 

 and redrawn from the lithographic plate of Frederic 

 Cuvier's Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes; and 

 we add the description which Mr Bennett has given 

 of those alive in the Zoological Society's Menagerie. 



" In size, it is about equal to a full-grown hare : 

 its colour above is dark glossy ferruginous-brown, 

 resulting from the intermixture of black and brown 

 coloured hairs, somewhat lighter along the middle 

 line of the back, and varying in intensity according 



