THE CHEVROTIN. 



Thefe beautiful and elegant little animals are found, in great abundance, 

 in Guinea, and, though they are amazingly fwift, in proportion to their lize, 

 the negroes often take them, by knocking them down with Hicks. They 

 are very ealily tamed, and foon become familiar and entertaining; but their 

 conftitution is fo very delicate, that they cannot exift in any climate, except 

 the hotter!, and always fall a facriflce to the rigour of our climate, whenever 

 they are brought over. 



Naturalifts notice two varieties, or rather, perhaps, diftind: fpecies, of this 

 animal; giving, to that juft defcribed, the appellation of, the Chevrotin of 

 Guinea ; and to the other, which is found in the Eaft Indies, and particularly 

 in the illands of Java and Ceylon, the name of the Chevrotin of the Indies. 

 But it is to be obferved, that the latter is defcribed as being of a beautiful 

 yellow colour, with a white neck and belly, and as having two canine teeth, 

 or rather tulks, proceeding from the upper jaw, which evidently refers that 

 animal to the genus Mofchus, or Mulk Deer. Whether that fpecies, which 

 is found in Guinea, has thefe tulks or not, remains to be afcertained by fome 

 accurate obferver ; and mult, for the prefent, remain among the obfcure parts 

 of natural hiftory. 



