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catch great numbers in snares, and carry them to 

 the markets in cages for sale. According to Mr. 

 Pennant they may be purchased at so low a rate 

 as two pence halfpenny a-piece. 



The Pygmy Musk has been very elegantly 

 figured by Seba and others, but has often been 

 confounded with some other species, as well as 

 with the Royal Antelope, an animal equally beauti- 

 ful and diminutive, and which will be described 

 under its proper genus. It is necessary to observe, 

 that our present animal is improperly supposed by 

 M. Brisson and others to be a native of Guinea. 

 I must also add, that the elegant specimen in the 

 Leverian Museum, particularly referred to by Mr. 

 Pennant, in his History of Quadrupeds, as well as 

 described by myself in the Naturalisfs Miscellany ^ 

 is in reality a different species, viz. the Moschus 

 Jamnicus. 



The legs of the Pygmy Musk have been fre- 

 quently capped at the upper joint with gold or 

 silver, and in that state used by way of tobacco- 

 stoppers. Specimens thus prepared may be seen 

 in most museums, and are also engraved in the 

 works of Seba and Buffon. A leg of this animal 

 is also described by Grew in his Museum of the 

 Royal Society, under the highly improper title of 

 a leg of a Greenland Stag, 



