The Earl of Derby's Musk Deer. 



Moschus Stanleyanus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 65. 



This species is immediately distinguishable from all the other species of the genus by the 

 brightness of its colouring, and by the absence of the nuchal streak, and of the white on the under 

 surface of the body. 



The specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken, was presented to the Society's 

 Menagerie by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Many specimens have lived, from time to 

 time, in the magnificent aviaries, at Knowsley, belonging to the Earl of Derby. 



The wheat forming the background of the plate was taken from one of Col. Sykes' drawings 

 of a species of Triticum, called by the natives "Bukoshee Guhoo" found at Poona, in the Dukhan. 



Habitat, India ; the exact locality is unknown. 



The genera] colour is reddish brown, the hairs on the body being tipped with black ; a stripe 

 on each side of the chin, and down the middle and sides of the neck, is white; the chest, the insides 

 of the thighs, and tip of tail, also white. 



Length of the head and body, twenty inches ; tail, three inches. 



