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M U S K. Hi. Quad. Genus X. 
Tinst M. Hif. Quad. N° 54.—Mofchus, Pallas Sp. Zool. fafe. xiii. Lev. Mus. 
USK. With very fharp flender white tufks on each fide of the 
upper jaw, hanging out far below the under jaw: ears rather 
large: neck thick: hair on the whole body long, upright, and 
thick fet; each hair undulated; tips ferruginous; beneath them 
black; the bottoms cinereous: on each fide of the front of the 
neck is a-white line edged with black, meeting at the cheft; another 
croffes that beneath the throat: limbs very flender, and of a full 
black: tail very fhort, and fcarcely vifible. The female wants the 
tufks and the mufk-bag. 
The mufk-bag is placed on the belly, almoft between the thighs. 
A full-grown male will yield a drachm and a half of mufk; an old 
one two drachms. 
The length of the male is two feet eleven ; of the female, two feet 
three. The weight of a male from twenty-five to thirty pounds, 
Troy weight: of an old female, from thirty to thirty-five; but fome 
young ones do not exceed eighteen. 
Inhabits 4fa, from Jat. 20 to 60, or from the kingdoms of Laos 
and Tong-King, between India and China, and through the kingdom 
of Tibet* as high as Mangafea. The river Fene/ei is its weftern 
boundary, and it extends eaftward as far as lake Baikal, and about 
the rivers Lena and Witim; but gradually narrows the extent of its re- 
fidence as it approaches the tropic. Lives on the higheft and rudeft 
mountains, amidit the fnows, or in the fir-woods which lie between 
them: goes ufually folitary, except in autumn, when they collect in 
flocks to change their place: are exceffively active, and take amazing 
* Correct in p. 113, Hift, Quad. 9. 44 or 45, read 20. 
leaps 
