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THE MUSKS 
Are a small group of animals much allied to the Deer, but separated from them in never having any horns 
on the frontal bone, and in being furnished with very long, often exserted canines. 
1. MOSCHUS {Linn.). 
The Musk-bearing Musk is covered v^^ith a very elastic fur formed of erect, spreading, closely-packed, 
elastic, tubular, waved, very brittle hair; a naked muffle, no tear-bag. They always have the hinder edge 
of their tarsus and the whole of their throat entirely covered with hair. The hoofs are small, compressed, 
narrow, triangular, acute ; the false hoofs are elongate and well-developed. The tail is very short and 
rudimentary. 
The males are provided, on the middle of the abdomen, with a large pouch secreting musk, and they 
have, on the outer side of the thigh, a celluliform and netted gland secreting a serous liquid. — Brandt, Act. 
Acad. Imp. Petersb. \S'6Q.—A7in. Anat. Sf Phys. 1837, 283. 
The young, like those of most deer, are spotted, and the adult generally plain-coloured. 
The KuBARGA. Moschus Sibiricus. 
Ash-brown; beneath paler; throat black or ashy, with a definite white streak on each side. 
Animal MoscTiiferum Kubarga dicta, J. G. Gmelin, Nov. Com. Petrop. iv. 393. — Moschus Sihiricus, Pallas, Spic. 
Zool. xiii. 29. t. 4, 5, 6.— Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 1 72— Moschus Moschiferus, Schreber, Saugth. 944. t. 242, 
242a.— Shaw, Lever. Mus. i. t. 3?— Wrangel, Travels in Siberia.— Af0.sc/m5 Moschiferus, var. Altaici, Sundev. 
Inhabits Siberia ; Altai Mountains ; Lake Baikal {Gmelin). 
There is in the British Museum two skins of this species from the Altai, presented by the Royal Academy 
of St. Petersburg. Wrangel has observed the Siberian Musk on the borders of the Arctic Ocean. 
The MusK. Moschus Moschiferus. - 
Dark brown ; chest and belly rather paler ; throat and chest with indistinct pale cross bands. 
MusJcus, &c., Ysbrants Reize, 45. fig. — Musk, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xii. 361. — Supp. vi. 221. t. 29. — Moschus Mos- 
chiferus, Linn. S. N. i. 91. — Animal Moschiferum, Raii Quad. 124.^ — Calcol. Mus. 661. t. 666. — Capreolus 
Moschus, Gesner, Quad. 695. — Jonston, Quad. 55. t. 39.— Capra Moschus, Aldrov. Bisulc. 743. — Mos- 
chus, Schrockii Monag. 1667, 418. — Caprcea Moschifera, Seger, Misc. Acad. Nat. Cur. i. 169. obs. 128. 
t. \\.—Tragulus Moschiferus, Klein.— Tiie^ Musk, Penn. Sys. 56. t. 10. f. 1 ; Quad. i. 112. t. 12. f. 1.— 
Moschus saturatus, Hodgson, J. Asiat. See. Beng. viii. 203. x. 795. t. xi. 285. — Moschus Kacharensis, 
Hodgson, Cat. MSS. v. t. 3. 
Inhabits Thibet ; Nepal. 
The White-Bellied Musk. Moschus leucogaster. 
Dark brown ; the throat, chest, belly, and the inside of the ears, pure white. 
Moschus leucogaster, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, viii. 203. x. 914. xi. 285. — Gray, Cat. Mam. B. M. 
172. — Cat. Hodgson's Collection in B. M. 31. — Moschus niviventer, Hodgson, Icon. ined. n. 188, 190, 193. 
Inhabits Nepal. 
We have a male and female specimen of this species in the British Museum, presented by Mr. Hodgson. 
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