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the Napu or Pelandok, and to this difference of disposition 

 is attributed ; the Kanchil frequenting the forests without 

 fear of the Tigers and beasts of prey, while the former two 

 seek safety in the thickets nearer human habitations, where 

 they are less exposed to such enemies. 



The Pelandok (Moschus Pelandoc) is noticed by Sir 

 T. S. Raffles, as the least of the three in point of height, 

 with proportionably a larger and heavier body, and a larger 

 eye. By this description it may be presumed that the Napu, 

 as figured by M. Frederic Cuvier, is in reality this species, 

 and that our specimen is the true Napu ; but none of all 

 these notices are completely applicable to a specimen 

 formerly in the Leverian Museum, of which we have a 

 drawing, and which Dr. Shaw figured in the first volume 

 of the Naturalist's Miscellany, p. 3. It was in all respects 

 a musk of the Javan group, in colour of a light ferruginous 

 gray, naked round the eyes, but without the streak to the 

 nose. The canines were scarcely visible, and the three white 

 streaks commencing at the union of the white lines running 

 under the maxillse, branched from thence, one to each 

 shoulder, and the third to the breast, but all united at their 

 common centre, and without the intervention of dark 

 colours. Hence it would appear that these animals vary in 

 the form of colours of the subjugal stripes, that sometimes 

 the two maxillary ones have been overlooked, and, conse- 

 quently, that the perfect discrimination of species is not as 

 yet satisfactorily established*. 



The Deer. (Cervus, Lin.) 



M. Frederic Cuvier has given a general view of the 

 animals of this genus, in the Dictionnaire des Sciences 

 Naturelles, article Cerf. From this excellent source we 



* The figure in this work under the name of Pigmy Musk of 

 Sumatra, taken from the life at Exeter 'Change, offers a further 

 proof that the species and varieties are not as yet clearly ascer- 

 tained. 



