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two young, usually in the cleft of a roclc. In six weeks the young can 

 shift for themselves, and are driven off by the mother. They can procreate 

 ere they are a year old. They are easily tamed." 



Colonel Markham says that the musk-deer is exclusively a forest 

 ftnimal, keeps much to the same ground, and makes a sort of form, like the 

 hare, to lie on in the sun. It usually runs in bounds on all fours, and 

 often makes most astonishing bounds, occasionally 60 feet on a gentle slope 

 for several successive leaps, jumping over considerable bushes at each 

 bound. Adams too states that, " its mode of progression is performed 

 by series of jerking leaps." It is wonderfully sure-footed, and over rpcky 

 and precipitous ground perhaps has no equal. It appears to e^t but little, 

 chiefly grasses and lichens. If twins ape produced the twp ^re kppt apart, 

 it being very solitary in its habits, even ip ijifancy, The musk is milky 

 for the first year or two, afterwards granular : the dung of the males 

 smells of musk, but the body does not, and females dp not iji the slightest 

 degree. The flesh is dark-red and not musky, and the young is considered 

 to be the best venison in India, 



The musk deer is much sought after for its musk, many bping shot 

 and snared annually. A good musk-pod is valued at froift 10 to 15 

 rupees. The musk as sold is often much adulterated with blood, liver, &c, 

 One ounce is about the average produce of the pod. 



A few anatomical details of great interest by Pr. Campbell are here 

 given. 



" The musk bag lies at the end of the penis, and might be termed a prw- 

 putial bag. It is globular, about 1^ inch in diameter, and hairy, with a 

 hole in the centre about the diameter of a lead pencil, from which the se- 

 cretion can be squeezed. The orifice of the urethra lies near this, a little 

 posteriorly. Eound the margin of the opening of the glfind is a circle of 

 small glandular looking bodies. The musk when fresh is soft, not unlike 

 moist gingerbread. 



" The anus is surrounded by a ring of soft hairs, the skin under which is 

 perforated by innumerable small pores, secreting an abominably oifensivo 

 stuff, which pressure brings out like honey. The scrotum is round and 

 naked. 



" There is, besides, a peculiar organ or gland on the tail, which indeed 

 is composed almost wholly of it. The tail of the male is triangular, nude 

 fibovc, thick, greasy, partially covered with short hair below and with a 

 tuft of hairs at thp end, glued together by a viscid liquor. It has two 



