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Inferior surface of the head and face, inferior half of the neck, inter- 

 scapular, pectoral, and ventral regions, leaden or ash-grey, with the 

 hairs discoloured at the tips, the same colour running down on the inside 

 of the thighs and fore legs. 



Upper half of the sides of the neck and flanks of a reddish-brown, as 

 on the brow. 



Scapular and fenaoral regions of a dark-leaden hue, mixed from the 

 discolouration of tips of the hairs, and passing down the outer aspect of 

 the legs into tan-brown. 



A ridge of brownish-black, commencing between the ears and running 

 down the crest of the neck along the back to the tip of the tail, gradu- 

 ally spreading out behind the shoulders so as to form the predominat- 

 ing colour of the back and the entire colour of the rump and lumbar 

 region generally, and running gradually into the other colours where 

 the different regions meet ; the tail black in the middle, and bordered 

 on the sides by reddish- white, a very defined patch of white descending 

 from the angle of the tail down on the rear aspect of the buttocks, so 

 as to give a border of white when the animal is viewed laterally ; tail 

 broad, and of coarse longish tufted hair, but very short. Mammte 

 4, inguinal ; no inguinal glands ; length of toes, 4 inches ; circumference 

 of ditto, 8 inches ; succentorials large and well defined. 



II. — Note on a variety of Muse-Deer, or Kustora. 



[Mr. Ogilby, in his ' Mammalogy of the Himalayahs,' published in 

 Eoyle's ' Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalayahs,' writes as fol- 

 lows : ' "Whether the second species of Musk mentioned by Dr. Falconer 

 as having been discoverd during his recent journey into Cushmeer and 

 Little Tibet be founded on more important characters, we have no 

 means of ascertaining, that naturalist not having yet published his 

 observations.' — Ed-] 



Male Kustora, killed near Thaneon or Chundunwai^ee, Valley of Duchen- 



parah, May 19, 1838. 



Extreme length from muzzle to tip of tail, 3 ft. 2 in. Length of tail, 2 in. Length 

 of head, 3 in. Length of ears, 6 in. Interval between ears, 1 in. Interval be- 

 tween eyes, 2 in. Girth, at middle of sternum, 2 in. Height at shoulder, when 

 extended on side from tip of toe, 2 ft. 1 in. Height at croup, 2 ft. 9 in. Length 

 of toe of foreleg, li in. Length of succentorial toe of foreleg, li in. Length of 

 canines, 2iin. 



This specimen, an aged male, differs very remarkably from the speci- 

 mens I have hitherto seen in colour, size, magnitude of musk-bag, and 



head.' 



General colour of neck, back, sides, and whole body, a very light ochrey 

 biiff, like the Indian jackal, with a tinge of red, and some very faint wavy 

 traces of a darker colour over the shoulder and towards the hips. Head 

 of a reddish brown, particularly above the eyes to between the ears and 

 for a slight way above the opening of the nostrils, brown mixed with 

 ' grey from thence to between the eyes, and a rufous (or orange-red) 

 patch under the anterior angle of the eyes, extending to along half the 

 opening of the eyelids and crescent- shaped. The same colour on the 



' ' It is certainly a new species, if not 1 ter from Br. F. to Captain Cautley, dated 

 inchidcd in Hodgson's catalogue.'— id- | Cashmccr, March 20, 1838.— [Ed.] 



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