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MEMINNA. 



Moschus Meminna. M. supra cinereo-olivaceus, subtus albus, 

 lattribus albo-maculatis, vngulis succenturiatis nvllis. lAn. Sygt. 

 Nat. GmcL p. 1 74. 



Olivaceo-cinerrous Musk, white beneath, with the sides spotted 

 with white, and no false hoofs. 



Meminna. Knox Ceyl. p. 21. 



Chevrotain a j>eau marquetee 1 de taches blanches. Buff", la. 



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 M6mina ou Chevrotain de Ceylan. Buff. Svppl. 3. p. iQ2.pl. 15. 



Indian Musk. Pennant Quadr. i.p, nj. 



THE Meminna is a native of the Indian islands, 

 and is chiefly found in Ceylon and Java. 



It is readily distinguished, by its remarkable 

 colour and spots, from the rest of it congeners. 

 It seems to have been first acknowledged as a dis- 

 tinct species of this genus by Mr. Pennant, who 

 described it from a drawing communicated by 

 Governor Loten from Ceylon. 



Its length is about seventeen inches ; its colour 

 a cinereous olive, with the throat, breast, and belly, 

 white, and the sides and haunches spotted and 

 barred transversely with white : the ears are large 

 and open, and the tail very short. The weight of 

 this species is about five pounds and a half. 



The Count de BufYon, in his third supplement- 

 ary volume, has figured this animal, but seems to 

 consider it as a variety rather than a distinct spe- 

 cies, and confounds it with the Moschus pyg- 

 mxus. 







