THE TIBETIAN MUSK. 



Generic Characters. 



"Without horns. 



Two long tufks in the upper jaw. 



Eight fmall cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 



Synonims. 

 Catreolus Moschi, Gefner Quad. 695. 



Animal Moschiferum, Raii Syn. Quad, 127. Nieremb. Hift. Nat. 

 p. 184. Gmelin Nov. Comm. Petrop. iv. 



MoSCHUS MoSCHIFERUS. M. FOLLICULO UMBILICALI, Linn. Syjl. 



nat. 91. 



Musk Animal, Tavernier, Le Brun, Bell, Strahlenberg. 

 Le Muse, de Buffon, xii. 361. 



THE produdion, from which this animal takes its name,, was long 

 known and valued, before any certain account of the animal itfelf had been- 

 obtained by naturalifts. A native of the remote parts of the eaft, and an 

 inhabitant of the defert, it was confidered only as an object of the chace, 

 and confounded with the different fpecies of Deer or Antelopes abounding 

 in thofe regions. 



The general appearance of the Mulk is that of a fmall Roebuck. Its 

 length is about three feet three inches : its height, from the top of the 

 moulders to the bottom of the fore feet, is about two feet three inches; 

 from the top of the haunches to the bottom of the hind feet, two feet nine 

 inches. The upper jaw projects conliderably beyond the lower, and is 



