T H E 



PYGMY MUSK. 



Generic Character. 

 No Horns. 



Two long Tujks in the upper jaw. 



Eight fmall cutting Teeth in the lower jaw, none 



in the upper. 



Liwiteus and Pennant. 



Specific Character. 

 MUSK with legs of fmaller diameter than the 

 human finger. 



GUINEA MUSK. 



Pennant. Hiji. Quadr. p. 115. 



This elegant little creature is one of the fmalleft 

 of the hoofed quadrupeds, being feldom more than 

 about 9 Inches in length ; or about the fize of a fmall 

 cat. It abounds in feveral parts of the Eaft-Indies, 

 and is common in the ifland of Java. It is an animal 

 of a very agile and lively difpofition. At firft view 

 one would not be inclined to rank this creature in the 

 genus Mofchus or Mulk. Yet, fince both Linnaeus 

 and Mr. Pennant have agreed in fo doing, we fhall not 

 objedl to its being thus placed. The tufks in the upper 

 jaw are, however, very ihort, fo that it does not (hew, 

 in a ftriking manner, that particular of its generic cha- 

 racter. This little fpecies is generally of a tawny colour 

 above, and white below ; but the individual fpecimen, 

 from which this figure was taken (and which is now 

 in the Leverian Mufeum), is ftreaked in a remarkable 

 manner on the neck with white. 



