246 MAMMALIA. 



Moschus chrysogaster, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, viii. 



203 (1839), x. 914, xi. 285; Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 172; 



Cat. Hodgson Collection in B. M. 31 ; List Osteol B. M. 63. 

 Moschus moschiferus var., Sundevall, Pecora, 118. 

 Hob. Nepal. 



Two specimens. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



OSTEOLOGY, t. 25. f. 1. 



Skull. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 Skull. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



ICON. 



Drawing of male and female. Hodgson, Icon . ined. B. M. 1. 1 91 . 

 Drawing of female. Hodgson, Icon. ined. B.M. t. 192. f. 2. 



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

 or less naked. Males without any peculiar odoriferous 

 gland. Throat white streaked . Young coloured like the 

 adult. Pigmy Musks. 



Pigmy Musks, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 



2. MEMINNA, Gray. 



Throat entirely covered with hair. Fur white, striped and 

 spotted. The legs are short and rather stout. The hinder edge 

 of the metatarsus covered with hair, but on its outer side, a little 

 below the hock, a rather large, smooth, naked prominence, red 

 when alive. 



Meminna, Knox-, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. xxvii. ; Lesson. Nov. 



Tab. R. A. 175. 



Moschus, sp., Erxleb. S. A. 322, 1/77; Zimn*.; Desm. 1804. 

 Musk, sp., Penn. 



Moschiola, Hodgson, Calcutta J. N. H. iv. 292. 

 Tragulus, sp., Brisson, R. A. 95, 1756. 

 Tragulus, Sundevall, Pecora, 118, 119. 



.The Pisora inhabit the forests of India, near to, but without 

 the various ranges of hills. Hodgson. 



The flesh is excellent; it lives in the dense woods of the 

 Dukhun, not in the plains. Sfyfas, P. Z. S. 1831. 



1. MEMINNA INDICA. The MEMINNA or PISORA. 



Moschus Meminna, Erxl. Syst. 322; Schreb. Saugth. 960. t. 243; 



Gatterer, Brev. Zool. i. 92; TicMl, Calcutta Journ. N. H. i. 



1840, 420. 



