SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



structure elegant, slender, mostly with muzzle, suborbital 

 sinus, and with canines in the upper-jaws of the males ; 

 succentorial hoofs. 



Genus I. — Moschus. 



Incisors §; canines l;l in the males; molars |;^' = 34; 

 therefore two more than in the females. Incisors and mo- 

 lars as in other ruminants ; two or four inguinal mammas ; 

 form of the body gathered up ; the hind-quarters more 

 elevated than the anterior ; slight appearance of callosity on 

 the breast of some; general colouring, gray-brown, with 

 white and black, in streaks about the throat ; white in 

 the young of some on the body, and even on adults ; no 

 horns. 



765. 1. M. Moschiferus (the Thibetan Musk.) Size 

 of a roebuck ; hair very coarse ; brittle, gray- brown ; a 

 pouch on the abdomen, before the prepuce of the male 

 containing an odoriferous unctuous substance (the musk) ; 

 canine teeth long, curved back, edged ; very long succen- 

 torial hoofs. 



Var .? Slaty blue, small, often with white on the 

 throat ; a blackish streak downwards intervening ; also 

 white from albinism. 



Moschi Capreolus, Gesn. Animal Moschiferum, Nierem- 

 berg, Ray. Capra Moschi, Aldr. Tragus Moschiferus, 

 Klein. Kabarga, Gmel. Le Muse, Buff. Tlie Thibetan 

 Musk, Pent., Shaw. M. Moschiferus, Auctor. Xe of the 

 Chinese. 



Icon. Buff., and in our possession, ditto of variety. 



Inhabits China, Tartary, Mountains of Thibet, and 

 Northern India. 



766. 2. Memina (the Memina.) Size of a rabbit ; fur 



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