268 Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting [No. 172. 



RUMINANTIA. 



Gen. — Moschus, Linne. 



Tragultjs, Brisson. 



Tragultjs Kanchil, Gray : List, 



Syn. — Chevrotain adulte, ) D „ A „ 



«, *. • i t V Button, apud Gray. 



Chevrotain de Java, J r J 



Javan Musk, Shaw. 



Moschus Palandok, Marsden. 



Moschus Kanchil, Raffles. 



Pelandok, Raffles, 



Moschus fulviventer, Gray. 



11 Kanchil" or " Pelandok" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Singapore, Pinang, Lancavy Islands, Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, Java. 

 In some individuals the back is nearly black. The colour and distri- 

 bution of the marks of the chest and abdomen are also liable to individual 

 variations, one of which gave rise to the supposed species : Moschus 

 fulviventer. The animal is by the Malays indiscriminately denominated 

 "Kanchil" and "Pelandok;" the latter denomination is sometimes par 

 excellence applied to the young, and this circumstance in all probability 

 gave rise to the supposed species Moschus Pelandok. The species is 

 astonishingly numerous. In Prince of Wales' Island, any number may 

 be procured within a short notice, at the rate of one Spanish dollar per 

 dozen. Knowing the partiality of these deer to the leaves of the sweet 

 potato plant (Convolvolus batatas,) the Malays either use traps, baited 

 with this vegetable, or lie in ambush in moonlight nights in fields where 

 it is cultivated, and disable the intruders by throwing sticks at their 

 legs. In confinement, in its native climate, the animal becomes rather 

 delicate, though it occasionally survives, and even breeds. The female 

 has four mamma?, and one or two young at the time. The new-born 

 measures eight and six-eighth inches in length, of which the head is 

 three inches, the tail one inch. The skin of the upper parts is of a pale 

 blackish colour, scantily covered with short, fine, brown hairs. The 

 abdomen and inner side of the limbs are pale yellow; the throat and 

 chest have the dark marks of the adult, but paler. The largest adults 

 measure from the apex of the nose to the root of the tail, one foot six 

 and a half inches ; the tail three inches in length. 



