ANATOMICAL NOTES ON THE MUSK DEER OF NIPAL. 151 
The cornua are articulated with a small process of the tem- 
poral bone below the meatus auditorius. The larynx one 
inch long. The trachea to the first branch given off, (which 
is on the right side,) eight inches long: one inch further on it 
divides at once into four branches, the first branch goes to the 
highest of the four lobes of the right lung. The cartilaginous 
rings of the trachea incomplete behind. 
Dimensions of the " Wah" of the Bhotiahs. 
Ailurus fulgens, or male, mature. 
From snout to tip of tail, thirty-seven and a fourth inches. 
From the sole of fore-foot to superior crest of scapula, nine 
and a half inches. 
From foramen magnum to snout, taken with callipers, five 
and a fourth inches. 
Length of tail six inches. 
From first cervical vertebra, to first vertebra of the tail, 
sixteen and three-fourths inches. 
Greatest circumference of head round the angle of the jaw, 
ten inches. 
Length of humerus, five inches. 
Length of fore-arm, four and a half inches. 
From wrist to tip of middle finger, two and three-fourths 
inches. 
Length of femur, four and a half inches. 
Length of tibia, and fibula, five and a half inches. 
From heel to tip of middle toe, four and a half inches. 
Girth round lower part of thorax, twelve inches. 
From anterior edge of the orbit to tip of snout, one and a 
half inches. 
From external opening of the ear to the tip of the nose, 
three and a fourth inches. 
Journ. Asiatic Society of Bengal, for Feb. 1837. 
