ANATOMICAL NOTES ON THE MUSK DEER OF NIPAL. 149 
incomplete, and that they have been copied "in the rough" 
as made at the dissection; but their accuracy, and the inte- 
resting nature of the animal they appertain to, may neverthe- 
less render them acceptable to the curious in such matters. 
A musk deer, (Cacharya,) male, mature. — Length from 
vent to occiput, two feet two and a half inches: occiput to 
snout, seven inches: tail a mere rudiment, one and a half inch 
long, terminating in a tuft of hair like a shaving brush. The 
anus surrounded by a ring of soft hair, the skin under which 
is perforated by innumerable small pores secreting an abomi- 
nably offensive stuff; pressure brings out the stuff liquid, like 
melted honey. Scrotum round, and naked; space between it 
and anus naked, also for a small space towards the groins. 
Penis three and a fourth inches long, terminating in the musk 
bag, which is in this animal globular, a little flattened on the 
surface towards the ground — one and a half inch in diameter 
either way, and thickly covered with long hairs; it is pendent 
from the belly, not like the Bhotiah musk deer examined 
last year, in which it was bound up to the abdominal parietes. 
At the centre of the musk bag is a circular hole, large enough 
to admit a lead pencil; its edges are naked and moist. At 
the posterior margin of this hole is the orifice of the penis. 
The penis is, in fact, terminated by the musk bag, which 
might be called correctly the preputial bag. The bag is com- 
posed of two distinct membranes, apparently unconnected 
with one another, except at the margin of the circular external 
hole. The external membrane is vascular and strong; the 
internal one is silvery, shining, and not vascular: it resembles 
the retina of the eye, as it is seen on dissecting the eye from 
without. The inner membrane, which forms the cavity of 
the bag, is lined internally with a few scattered hairs. The 
musk is soft, of a reddish-brown color, and granular: its ap- 
pearance and consistence is precisely that of moist gingerbread. 
Around the margin of the hole of the bag is a circle of small 
