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MOSCHUS. MUSK. 

 Generic Character, 



Cornua nulla. 



Denies Primores inferiores 

 octo, 



Laniarii superiores solitarii 

 exserti. 



Horns none. 



Front-teeth in the lower jaw 

 eight. 



Tush solitary, in the upper 

 jaw^ exserfed. 



TIBETIAN MUSK. 



Moschus Moschiferus. M.folliaib umhilicalu Lin. Syst, Nat. 

 p, 91. 



Grey-brown Musk with umbilical follicle, 

 Moschus. Schroech. hist. moscL t. 44. 



Animal moschiferum, Nieremb, hist. nat.p. 184. /. G, Gmelm 



nov. comm. Petrop. 4. p. 393. Raj. Quadr, t. 127. 

 Capra moschi. Aldr. bisulc, p. 743. Gesn. Quadr, p, 786. 

 Le Muse. Buff. 12. p. 361. and SuppL 6. p. 27.1, pi. 29. 



TThE Musk is one of those quadrupeds whose 

 true form and natural history appear to have con- 

 tinued in great obscurity long after the introduc- 

 tion and general use of the celebrated perfume 

 which it produces. To the ancients it was un- 



