l2 MAMMALIA. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 



I. Fur erect, elastic, thick. Throat and hinder edge of tarsus 



hairy. Males with an odoriferous gland. Young spotted. 



1. MOSCHUS. Canines of males very long. 



II. Fur close-pressed. Throat and hinder edge of tarsus bald. 



Males without any odoriferous gland. Young coloured 

 like the adult. Throat white streaked. 



"2. MEMIXNA. Throat hairy. Hinder edge of metatarsus covered 

 with hair, naked on the outer side near the heel. Body 

 spotted. Intermaxilla elongate. 



3. HYEMOSCHUS. Chin and lips nakedish. Hinder edge of me- 



tatarsus hairy, naked on the outer side near the heel. In- 

 termaxilla very short. 



4. TRAGULUS. Throat and chin nakedish. Hinder edge of the 



metatarsus naked, callous. Fur soft. Intermaxilla elongate. 



I. Fur elastic, thick, brittle. Throat and hinder edge of the tar- 

 sus covered with hair. Males with an odoriferous gland. 



1. MOSCHUS. 



Muffle naked. Crumen none. Throat covered with hair. Fur 

 very elastic, formed of erect, spreading, closely-packed, elastic, 

 brittle, tubular, waved hair. Hinder edge of the tarsus covered 

 with hair. Hoofs small, compressed, narrow, triangular, acute ; 

 false hoofs elongated, well-developed. Tail very short, rudiment- 

 ary. Males with a large pouch, secreting musk, in the middle 

 of the abdomen, and with a celluliferous and netted gland on the 

 outer side of the thighs, secreting a serous fluid (see Brandt, 

 Act. Acad. Petersb. 1836; Ann. Anat. fy Phys. 1837, 283). 

 Young spotted, which are often obliterated in the adult. 



Moschus, Gray, P. Z. Soc. 1846 ; Knowsley Menag. ; List Mamm, 



B.M. 

 Moschus, sp., Linn. S. N. ed. 6. 13. 1748, ed. 10. 66. 1/58, ed. 12, 



91. 1766; Erxleb. S. A. 319, 1777; Storr, 1780. 

 M. Mosehiferus, Illiger, 1811; Lesson, Nov. Tab. R. A. 175. 

 Tragulus, sp., Brisson, Reg. Anim. i. 67, 1762. 



The Musk are confined to the snowy regions, amid the 

 glassy precipices of which they leap with a power and security 

 far more than Caprine, though, owing to the unequal length of 

 their legs, they can descend slopes only with difficulty, and fall- 

 ing are caught ; they cannot climb at all as Goats do, and are 

 solitary. They rut in winter, and produce young in May or June, 



