186 MAMMALIA. 
ing a long canine tooth on each side of the upper jaw, which in the 
male issues from the mouth, and finally in having a slender pero- 
nzus, which is not found even in the Camel. These animals are 
remarkably light and elegant. , 
M. moschiferus, L.; Buff. Supp. VI, xxix. (The Musk.), This 
is the most celebrated species, and the size of a Goat, has 
scarcely any tail, and is completely covered with hairs so 
coarse and brittle that they might be termed spines. What 
particularly distinguishes it, however, is the pouch situated 
before the prepuce of the male which produces that odorous 
substance so well known by the name of musk. This species 
appears to belong to that rugged and rocky region from which 
descend most of the Asiatic rivers, and which is spread out 
between Siberia, China and Thibet. Its habits are solitary and 
Docturnal, its timidity extreme. It is in Thibet and Tunkin 
that it yields the best musk; in the north, it is almost inodorous. 
The other Musks have no musk-pouch, and inhabit the warm 
parts of the eastern continent ;(1) they are the smallest and the 
most elegant of all the Ruminantia.(2) 
All the rest of the Ruminantia, the males at least, have two 
horns, that is to say, two prominences of the frontal bones 
which are not found in any other family of animals. 
In some, these prominences are covered with an elastic 
sheath composed as if with agglutinated hairs, which increases 
by layers and during life; the name of horn is applied to the 
substance of this sheath, and the sheath itself is called the 
corne creuse. ‘The prominence it envelopes grows with it, 
and never falls. Such are the horns of Oxen, Sheep, Goats 
and Antelopes. : 
In others, the prominences are only covered with a hairy 
skin, continuous with that of the head; nor do the prominen- 
ces fall, those of the Giraffe excepted. 
Finally, in the genus of the Stags, the prominences covered 
for a time with a hairy skin, similar to that on the rest of the 
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(1) The Moschus americanus established from Séba, is merely the young or the 
female of one of the Guiana Deer. The same may be said of the M. delicatulus of 
Shaw, Schreb. 245, D. It is the fawn of an American Deer. 
(2) Moschus pygmeus, Bull. XU, xiiii—Moschus memina, Schreb. CCXL, iii— 
Moschus juvanicus, Buff. Supp. VI, xxx.) 
