THE NAPU MUSK-DEER. 
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to the Napu of Sir Stamford Raffles, with the cha- 
racters of which as detailed by him, as well as with 
several stuffed skins preserved in the noble collection 
presented by him to the Zoological Society, it agrees 
in every respect. In size it is about equal to a full 
grown Hare. Its colour above is dark glossy ferrugi- 
nous brown resulting from the intermixture of black 
and fawn-coloured hairs, somewhat lighter along the 
middle line of the back, and varying in intensity accord- 
ing to the position in which it is seen. The under 
parts and inside of the legs are pure white, as are also 
the throat and chin. The fore part of the chest is 
nearly of the same colour with the back of the neck 
and is marked with three broad white radiating stripes 
commencing at the throat and passing, the central one 
into the white of the under surface of the body with 
the intervention only of a faint transverse band, and 
the two lateral ones nearly to the shoulders on each 
side. The bands of blackish brown which separate 
these stripes are perfectly distinct at their anterior 
part ; a mark of considerable importance in distin- 
guishing this species from the - Kanchil. On either 
side a white line passes backwards on the cheeks for 
some little distance, from the margins of the lower lip, 
which are continuous with the white of the throat ; 
and this marking, in the usual sitting posture of the 
animal, which is somewhat like that of the Hare in its 
form, gives it, when viewed in front, the appearance of 
having five radiating stripes on the chest. It is in all 
probability this circumstance, which is strongly repre- 
sented in a front view of the animal given by M. Fre- 
deric Cuvier in his Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, 
that has induced that eminent zoologist to regard five 
radiating bands as the distinctive character of this 
species, and three as that of the Kanchil ; whereas in 
truth the number is the same in both, and the difference 
