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THE SMALL SPOTTED MUSK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Two long TUSKS in the upper jaw. 



Eight fmall cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 



Pennaaf, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 

 Ferruginous-brown Mufk fpotted above with white. 



THE animal with which this fpecies feems to have the greateft affinit;^ 

 is the Brafilian Mufk of Mr. Pennant, and it is not impoffible that 

 it may be a variety of the fame fpecies in a much younger ftace. The 

 Brafilian Muflc being defcribed by Mr. Pennant as of the fize of a roe-buck, 

 whereas the individual fpecimen here rcprefented is fcarce larger than the Mof- 

 chus pygmjeus, or Guinea Mufk. It alfo exadlly refembles that fpecies in the 

 form and difpofition of the teeth, the two middle incifores in the lower jaw- 

 being extremely broad and large, and on each fide of thele are fituated three 

 fmall and flender teeth. Like the Mofchus pygmaus it is alfo deflitute of 

 tufks, or exferted dentes laniarii, which form fo confpicuous a feature in the 

 large or common Mufk. 



The colour of this little animal is a very fine deep ferruginous brown, 

 thickly and beautifully marked and fpotted with fomewhat oval patches of 



white. 



