JAVA MUSK. 



Moschus Javanicus. M. supra femfgineus, suhhts longiiudmaU* 

 ter albuSy cauda longiusciila villosa subtus et apice alba, ungidis 

 svccenturiatis exiguis. Lin. Syst. Nat.Gmd. p. 174. FaU. 

 spic. Zool. 12. p. 18. 13, p. 28. 



Ferruginous Musk^ longitudinally white beneath, with villosfi 

 tailj white beneath and at the tip, and small appendicular 

 hoofs, 



Le Chevrotain de Java. Buff. Svppl. 6. p. 229. pL 30, 



This species, which, as its name imports, is a 

 native of the island of Java, appears to have been 

 first described by Dr. Pallas, in his work entitled 

 Spicilegia Zoologica. Its size is that of a rabbet, 

 and its general colour ferruginous brown, with 

 blackish hairs intermixed, and whitish beneath, 

 with a pair of longitudinal white stripe^^ running 

 down on each side the lower part of the neck ; the 

 tail is white beneath and at the tip : the feet, which 

 nearly resemble those of the Pygmy Musk, are 

 yet furnished with very small appendicular hoofs. 

 This animal is introduced into the sixth supple- 

 mentary volume of Buffon, and is figured under 

 the name of Chemotain de Jam. It appears to be 

 the animal of which Mr. Pennant quotes a speci- 

 men in the Leverian Museum, and which, through 

 some oversight, has been described by him in his 

 History of Quadrupeds, and by myself in the Na- 

 turalist's Miscellany, as the Moschus Pygma^us ; 

 the circumstance of the appendicular or false hoofs 

 having been, through inadvertance, overlooked. 



