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THE GUINEA MUSK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Tiifks in the upper jaw. 



SaiiiU cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ,&c. 



Mufk with a fharp pointed tuft of hair on the upper part of the head. 



Guinea Antelope, Pennant. Shiadr. p. 'ji. 



La Grimme. Be Buffon. 12. 307. /. 41. 



AT the time when Linnzeus compofed the lafl: Edition of the Syftenia 

 Nature, an uncertainty prevailed with refpeft to the proper arrange- 

 ment of this animal ; and as no other than female fpecimcns had then been 

 feen in the European Mufeums, and as the individual fpecimen mentioned by 

 Dr. Grimm, its firfl defcriber, was faid to be without horns, Linnaeus was 

 therefore induced to place it as a fpecies of the genus Mofchusj in which 

 he followed the example of the judicious Briflbn. The charafters of the ani- 

 mal are now better known, and it is found to belong with greater propriety 

 to the genus Antelope, in which it is placed by Mr. Pennant. It is to be ob- 

 ferved however that it has ftrongly the general habit and appearance of a 

 Mufkj and forms as it were a connedting link between the genera of Mof- 



chus. 



