646 CLASS xvn. 



306), MEYER Nov. Act. Acad. Goes. Leop. Carol, xvi. p. 552 sqq. Tab. 40 

 (cop. in Cuv. R. Ani., id. itt., Mammif. PI. 85, fig. 1} ; Camelus mcwjna 

 GM., Burr. Suppl vi. PI. 28, TSCHUDI Faun. Peruan. Taf. 17. 



Family XVIII. Elaphii. Feet with the sole of each toe dis- 

 tinct, included entirely within the margins of the hoof. Incisor 



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teeth ^ , canines none or only the upper, molars ^ . Horns in 

 some none, in some osseous, without a horny covering. 

 A. Feet furnished with supplementary hoofs. 



Moschus L. (Tragulus BRISS.) Canine teeth in upper jaw, 

 exsert in males, long. Lachrymal sinuses none. Horns none. 

 Tail short or very short. 



Sp. Moschus moschiferus L., PALLAS Spic. Zool. Ease. xm. 17790. Tab. 

 (fig. of animal copied in SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 242), BBANDT u. KAT- 

 ZEBURG Mediz. Zool. I. s. 41 51, Tab. 7, 8, n. s. 347, 348 (with another 

 fig. of animal) ; the music-deer. The size is that of a young roe ; colour 

 brown with white throat and a white streak on each side of the neck, and, 

 often inconspicuous, whitish-grey spots along the sides at the back part of 

 the body ; the hairs are stiff, flat, and with the edges sinuous. The male 

 has a glandular sac in the neighbourhood of the navel, in which the musk 

 is secreted at the adult period of life. The musk-deer lives on the high 

 plains of central Asia, and is dispersed as far as the East of China. 



Smaller species with shorter ears and smooth hair, of which the legs are 

 slim, with the supplementary hoofs at a greater distance from the ground, 

 are also distinguished by the absence of the musk-sac. They occur in the 

 South of Asia, at Ceylon and in the Sunda Islands. Sub-gen. Tragulus 

 (BRiss.) SUNDEV. (Tragulus and Meminna GRAY). Sp. Moschus javanicus 

 GMEL. (from PALLAS), Moschus Kanchill, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 245 o, &c. 

 (The genus Moschus scarcely differs from that of the Deers ; less at least 

 than the giraffe, which LINN.EUS united with them.) 



Cervus L. (excl. of Camelopardalis) . Upper canine teeth in 

 many. Horns cast annually, peculiar to males (in females none, ! 

 one species excepted). Sebaceous gland (sinus lachrymalis] in 

 front of eye. A tuft of longer hair at the hind feet in most. Tail 

 short, sometimes very short. 



1 In the embryo of the Cervidce (fallow-deer) OWEN, Odont. p. 540, discovered six 

 deciduous incisors in the upper jaw, as J. GOODSIR, Report of Brit. Assoc.i%$g, had 

 previously in the cavicornia (cow and sheep). Thus the deciduous series of teeth in 



ruminantia is, incisors -> , canines , molars . 



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