MAMMALIA, PECORA. Mofchus, jp;; 
A follicle near the navel ; tail (hort. Thibet M- 
jerus. Inhabits Alpine mountains of Tonquin, Siberia j lives 
lulitary among the Inowy peaks of rocks ; gentle, tinvid, not 
ealily tamed ; expert in leaping, running, climbing and Iwim- 
ming; flcih of the young good ; about 2-| feet long. 
Ih-ad handfome, like the roc ; jtir Toft, liiioolli, lax, var^’hig by 
age atid Ii*a[(>u, chiefly blackilh-brown above, beneath hoaiy, 
the younger animals marked with Itreaks or fpots ; near the 
prepuce is an oval bag, flat on one fide, gibbous on the other, 
with a fmall orifice; in young animal-s empty, in the adult 
containing a- — 2 drachms of oily, friable, brown matter which 
is tire true mufk ; upper jaa) longer; fcrotumxoiy. 
^ndicus. Body above tawny> beneath whitifli 1 vvith fpurious hoofs ; 
tail longer. Indian M. 
Inhabits Indian larger than the lafl; head like that of the 
horfe ; ears ereft, oblong ; legs {lender, 
^ysmaeus. Body above brown-tawny, beneath white ; fpurious hoofs o. 
Guinea M. 
Inhabits India and Java; g f inches long, tail i ; ears long ; 
2 middle broad, rellllender; <h/«j fmall, ^ • 
2, Body nifty mixed with black j neck and throat with per- 
pendicular ftripes. 
^eminna. Body above cinereous-yellow, beneath white ; fides fpptted 
with white ; fpurious hoofs o. 
\nhdoi\.% Ceylon tavX Java, 1 7 inches long ; ears\ong\ iail&iort. 
Jivanicus Body above ferruginous, beneath longitudinally white ; tail 
longifli, hairy, w'hite beneath and s.t the tip. java AL 
Inhabits J'aua; fize of a labbit. 
I^oft and tars naked; pits under the eyes and on the groins o ; 
nech grey mixed with brown hairs, beneath white with 2 grey 
fpots almoft conneaed under tlie throat 2 long, divergent 
hairs ; crown longitudinally blackifh. 
■America- 
aus. 
Body tawny-brown ; mouth black j throat wlytc, 
•' Brafthan M- 
Inhabits Guinea and Brafil, hardly as large as aroe ; timid, aftive, 
fwift ; hair foft, Ihbrt ; head and neck on the upper part 
brown, under white; hind-legs longer than the fore ; ears ^ 
inches long; is probably only the fawn of the American r(x. 
A fpecies is flightly mentioned by Nieuboff m a curfory »nanner, 
without plate or farther information than that it is ot the hze 
of a ftag, and without horns, , , , p ^ 
'2* Tawny-brown, fpotted above with white. r Z 3 a, 
