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The Golden-Eyed Musk. Moschiis chrysog aster. 
Grey brown ; the ears, orbits, throat, chest, abdomen, and inner sides of the legs brilliant yellow. 
Moschus chrysogaster, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. See. Bengal, viii. 203. (1839) x. 914. xi. 285. — Gray, Cat. Mam. 
B. M. 172. — Cat. Hodgson's Collection in B. M. 31. — Moschus moschiferm, var. Sundeval. 
Inhabits Nepal. 
There are two specimens of this very distinct species in the British Museum Collection, which were 
presented by Mr. Hodgson. 
The Pygmy Musks are covered with close-j)ressed hairs. The throat and the hinder edge of the tarsus 
is more or less naked. The canine teeth of the males are exserted. They are destitute of any musk and 
tear-bag, or brushes to the legs, are generally brown, with white streaks on the throat, and often spotted. 
The young are like the adult in colour. 
This division contains three very distinct genera. 
2. MEMINNA i^Gray). 
Chin covered with short adpressed hair; the legs are short and rather stout; the hinder edge of the 
metatarsus covered with hair ; but on its outer side, a little below the hock, is a rather large, smooth, 
naked prominence (red when alive) ; intermaxillaries short, broad, edging the nasals. Fur striped 
and spotted. 
The Meminna. Meminm Indica. Tab. XXXII. 
Moschus Meminna, Erxleb. Syst. 322.— Schreb. Saugth. 960. t. 243.— Chevrotain, &c., Buffon, H. N. xiii. 315. 
— Meminna ou Chevrotain de Ceylon, BufFon, Supp. iii. 315. — Meminna, Knox, Ceylon, 21. — Shaw, Zool. ii. 
256. t. —Indian Mush, Penn. Syn. 59. t. 10. f. 2; Quad. i. 127. t. 127.— Knight, Mus. Anim. Nat. 
f. 572, 574.— Pissay, Hamilton, Voy. E. Ind. i. 261.— Mingee, Tickel, Calcut. Journ. N. H. ii. 420.— 
Tragulus Memina, Sundev. Pecora, 63. — Meminna Indica and M. Malaccensis, Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 172. 
— Tragulus mimenoides, Hodgson, MSS. 
Inhabits India ; Madras, Ceylon. 
3. HYEMOSCHUS {Gray). 
Chin covered with short hair ; the hinder edge of the metatarsus hairy, with a naked horny space beneath 
the hock ; the intermaxillaries are elongate, oblong, truncated behind, and placed on the front end 
of the truncated maxilla, not reaching the nasals. Fur spotted like Meminna. 
These animals have much the habit of Pigs. They take their food in the water. They are called 
Deer Pigs by the French colonists in W. Africa. 
Dr. Hugh Falconer (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843) gave some account of the osteology of the foot of this ani- 
mal, and in his MSS. he informs me he has proposed to call the genus Amphimoschus. M. De Blainville has 
regarded it as the recent type of Anoplotherium. In the form of the feet it is very nearly allied to a fossil 
genus found in Auvergne, which M. A. Bravard has described under the name of Ccenotherium (1835). 
The BooMORAH. Hyemoschus aquaticus. Tab. XXXI. 
Brown ; underside longitudinal streak on sides, and spots on back white. 
Moschus aquaticus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1840, 35. — Falconer, P. G. S. 1843. — Hyemoschus aquaticus. Gray, Ann. 
and Mag. N. H. xvi. 350. — Moschus Stanleyanus (misprint for aquaticus^, Sundev. Pecora, 64. — Boomo- 
rah, Negroes of Sierra Leone. — Water Deer, Colonists at Sierra Leone. — Biche Cochon, French colonists 
in W. Africa. 
Inhabits W. Africa ; Balham Creek. Sierra Leone. 
This animal was first brought to this country by Mr. Whitfield, and Lord Derby has had several living 
at Knowsley. It is probably found in Senegal, as I discovered a specimen at a dealer's in Paris, which I 
presented to the Paris Museum, among some skins of Antelopes from that country. Though it has very 
much the external appearance of the Meminna from India, yet its skeleton presents several pecuHarities, 
which render it necessary to form it into a separate genus. 
Lord Derby observes : — 
" My three remaining Musks go on very well, but I am puzzled at their name of M. aquaticus, as with 
us they seem to take no notice whatever of water. 
" Here the people doubt its chewing the cud, and if so it cannot be a Musk. 
" John tells me today he has seen them ruminate." 
