THE 
PYGMY MUSK. 
Generic Character. 
No Horns. 
Two long Tujks in the upper jaw. 
Tight (mall cutting Teeth in the lower jaw, none 
in the upper. 
Linnaus and Pennant. 
Specific Character. 
MUSK with legs of fmaller diameter than the 
human finger. 
GUINEA MUSK. 
Pennant. Hifi. Quadr. p. 115. 
This elegant little creature is one of the fmalleft 
of the hoofed quadrupeds, being feldom more than 
about 9 Inches in length ; or about the fize of a fmall 
cat. It abounds in feveral parts of the Eaft-Indies, 
and is common in the ifiand of Java. It is an animal 
of a very agile and lively difpofition. At firft view 
one would not be inclined to rank this creature in the 
genus Mofchus or Mulk. Yet, fince both Linnaeus 
and Mr. Pennant have agreed in fo doing, we lhall not 
objedt to its being thus placed. The tulles in the upper 
jaw are, however, very fhort, fo that it does not fhew, 
in a finking manner, that particular of its generic cha¬ 
racter. This little fpecies is generally of a tawny colour 
above, and white below ; but the individual fpecimen, 
from which this figure was taken (and which is now 
in the Leverian Mufeum), is {freaked in a remarkable 
manner on the neck with white. 
