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Mem'mna Knoxhijl. Ceylon . 21. de Buff on* xii. 315. PifTay Hamilton s 4 ^* Indian, 
'yoy, E. Indies . I. 261 „ 
M. length 1 foot 5 weight 5 lb, f ; of a cinereous 
olive color: throat, breaft and belly white : Tides 
and haunches (potted, and barred tranfverfely with 
white : ears large and open : tail very (hort. 
Inhabits Ceylon ^ a fine drawing of this animal 
was communicated to me by Mr. Lolen , late go** 
vernor in Ceylon . 
Le Chevrotain des Tndes. de Buff quad. 66. Tr. indicus.65. Klein 49 « Guins&I 
fon , xii. 315. 341. xlii. xliii. 9#^. 21. 
Tragulus Guineenfis. Brijfon Mofchus pygmseus Lin.fyjl. 92. 
M. nine inches \ long : head, legs, and whole upper 
part of the body tawny: belly white : no fpurious 
hoofs : two very broad cutting teeth in the lower 
jaw: on each fide of them, three others very {len¬ 
der : in the upper jaw two fmall tufks: ears large : 
tail an inch long. In pofleffion of Mr. Guy of 
York Buildings , who faid it came from Guinea . 
M. de Buffon fays it is found in the Baft-Indies* 
The horns which Linn£us fays are fold as belong¬ 
ing to this animal are thofe of the Royal Antelope , 
p. 28. 
To this genus mud: be referred a large fpecies 
mentioned by Nieuhojf.\ p, 209, found in the ifle 
of Formofa , which he calls flags, lefs than ours, 
but without horns. 
No 
