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MAMMALIA. 
[Chap. I. 
rials of his long captivity, is the small Cf musk deer " 1 
so called in India, although neither sex is provided with 
a musk -bag. The Europeans in Ceylon know it by the 
name of the " moose deer ; " and in all probability the 
terms mush and moose are both corruptions of the 
Dutch word " muis" or " mouse " deer, a name par- 
ticularly applicable to the timid and crouching attitudes 
"MOOSE" DEER (MOSCHUS JVLEMINNi). 
and aspect of this beautiful little creature. Its extreme 
length never reaches two feet ; and of those which were 
domesticated about my house, few exceeded ten inches 
in height, their graceful limbs being of proportionate 
delicacy. It possesses long and extremely large tusks, 
with which it can inflict a severe bite. The interpreter 
moodliar of ISTegombo had a rndlh ivhite meminna in 
1847, which he designed to send home as an acceptable 
1 Moschus raerainna. 
