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from the former to the latter the back makes a slightly curved large fall. The 
junction of the shoulders and neck is very low, with the neck bowed considera- 
bly, but the head carried rather high, and the ears erect. The buttocks are 
large and full ; and appear more so than they really are, from the outward 
set of the thick erect coat in that part, whereby the tiny tail is completely 
concealed. The young animal’s coat is nearly as long, and quite as full, as 
the mother’s, but it has no woolly fleece beneath it : the hair is one and half inch 
long, closely and erectly set on, wavy, straight, thick, but weak, having a quill- 
like appearance and feel, but no stiffness. Dissection and the microscope 
show no peculiarity in the structure of the hair. 
The body and neck are short and compact ; and seemingly (from the nature 
of the coat) heavy, but not so in reality. 
The coarseness of the hair makes the limbs, too, appear coarse, though 
really fine as well as long, especially the hind ones, which have even an extreme 
elongation. The head is small, and rounded ; its vertical dimensions very 
inconsiderable ; the tapering, moderate ; the muzzle, finely formed ; the eye, large, 
and of matchless soft lustre ; the ear, long, narrow, rounded at top, and, in 
a word, hare-like ; the whole expression of the head, gentle and engaging as 
possible. The hoofs are narrow and sharp : the false hoofs, long and extremely 
acute : the muzzle, very moist : no suborbital fissures : pupils of the eyes, 
transverse and broad-linear. 
The colour is dark earthy brown, unmixed upon the head, neck, shoulders, 
and limbs ; mixed with rusty upon the rest of the body above : insides of limbs, 
paler, or, gray brown : belly, dark, as above : pectoral surface of neck, with 
a dark centre and pale gray sides, the colours being disposed lengthwise in all 
their extent from the head to the chest : inferior surface of the head, dirty 
white : inside of the ears, and a patch proceeding from their base over the front, 
and ending in a narrow eye-brow, the same : on the lateral surface of the neck, 
near to the junction of the head and neck, two or three large white spots : ears, 
tipped with black: hoofs, dusky: muzzle, jet black; irides, very dark brown. 
In conclusion, I may observe, that this description of the proportions and form, 
an d colours of the young musk, will serve almost equally well for the mature ani- 
from which the young is only distinguished by the peculiar spots described 
,n ^ le beginning of this paper ; and which, as already observed, are now nearly 
obliterated in the young. 
fbe accompanying sketches, [Plate XXI.] exhibiting the young in a variety of 
a *-titudes, are done from the life, and are very accurate*. 
2. — Cervus Jardi. (Mihi.) 
The Jard'i Deer. Habitat, the sub-Himalayan ranges, and Saul forest. 
Specific character. — Large, wiry-haired, dusky and tan, Deer, with trifurcate, 
Passive, granulated, round, recurved, and divergent horns. 
This large species stands 4 feet 4 inches high at the shoulder, and measures 
r °tn the setting on of the horns to the root of the tail, nearly 6 feet. 
I n his general form and carriage he bears considerable resemblance to the stag • 
b* n d legs being rather longer in proportion to his fore, and his hocks shoiter 
j an * n l bat species, his attitude at rest is less elegant, with the back too much in- 
c to arch, and the shoulders too low. Nor has he the majestic horns oi the stag, 
liev^ t ° rdinai r Acescent attitude, his neck is retracted as far as may be, to re- 
* le height of the massive horns : it has then a considerable drop trom the top 
turp ^ aVe ^ een forced to omit the third figure of the young musk in a sitting pos- 
’ want of space.-Eo. 
