THE NAPU MUSK-DEER. 
MoscHUS Javanicus. Raffles. 
The typical species of the genus to which this singular 
little creature is usually referred is the Musk, an 
animal which, although completely unknown to the 
ancients, has become in modern times notorious over 
all the world for the peculiar odour of the secretion 
whence it derives its name. All the other species 
comprised in the genus are, however, destitute of the 
faculty of producing that costly perfume ; and their 
union with the Musk is founded upon the general 
agreement existing between them in other more essen- 
tial particulars. Still this remarkable difference, added 
to the great dissimilarity in the form and structure of 
their hoofs, and other minor points of discrepancy, 
furnishes an obvious means of subdividing the genus ; 
and may probably, at some future time, when the 
