GERVID^ 



Subfamily i.— MOSCHINiE. 



Liver with a gall-bladder; in skull the canal situated 

 within margin of eye-sockets, and leading into nose-chamber, 

 mth only a single orifice ; no face-glands or lachrymal pits 

 below eyes ; hemispheres of brain comparatively smooth, 

 with few convolutions ; antlers wanting ; no foot-glands, 

 but a large caudal and a preputial gland in males. 



The distribution extends from GOgit over a large area in 

 Central and North-eastern Asia, including Cochin China, 

 Amurland, and Korea. Tollowing Fitzinger, Pocock regards 

 this group as of family rank (Moschidce), a view which has 

 much to be said in its favour, as the single genus is in 

 several respects intermediate between the Bovidce and the 

 typical Ccrvidce. 



I. Genus MOSCHUS. 



Moschus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, p. 66, 1758, ed. 12, vol. i, 

 p. 91, 1766; Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 159 ; Garrod, ibid. 

 1877, p. 287 ; Biitimeyer, Ahli. schweis. pal. Gea. vol. viii, p. 19, 

 1881 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. p. 551, 1891 ; 

 Lydehher, Deer of All Lands, p. 311, 1898; PococTc, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 937. 



Odontodorcas, Gistel, Naturgesch. Thierreiclis, p. 82, 1848. 



Build stout and heavy, with the limbs, especially the 

 hind-pair, long and thick, and the rump elevated ; hair 

 coarse, thick, brittle, minutely waved, and in structure 

 resembling pith ; ears large ; upper canines greatly developed 

 in males, and projecting far below the level of the lips, in 

 females much smaller ; no tarsal or metatarsal glands or 

 tufts ; lateral metacarpals represented by their lower 

 extremities; main hoofs narrow and pointed, lateral hoofs 

 large and functional ; tail very short in males, terminating 

 in a tuft and glandular, in the females evenly haired 

 throughout ; naked portion of muzzle large and completely 

 surrounding nostrils. 



Distribution co-extensive with that of subfamily. 



