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THE THIBETIAN MUSK. 
. , Moschus mosckiferus . — Ltnn.euf. 
PLATE III. 
Le Muse, JBuJfon, Cuvier Moschus moschiferus, Linn. Ha- 
milton Smith, Slc . — Thibetian Musk, Pennant, Shaw. 
The Thibetian Musk is the celebrated animal 
which produces the substance called Musk. The 
specimen in the Royal Museum of the University 
of Edinburgh, from which our plate was taken, is 
about the size of a small roebuck, scarcely standing 
so high upon the legs, and having a thicker and 
more clumsy-looking body. It is entirely of a deep 
reddish-brown, paler beneath, and on the inside of the 
legs. The hair is of great length and thickness, crisp 
and curled like that of the true deer, and without 
any woolly or downy substance at the roots ; it is 
sometimes varied with white. The canine teeth are 
longer in this than in any of the other forms, assuming 
the form of flat and cutting recurved tusks, which 
are visible for an inch outside the mouth. The 
hoofs are long, and assist while the animal is climb- 
ing upon the precipices among which it delights to 
dwell. Its habits, in fact, are similar to the Cha- 
