Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Musang \Mu*sang"\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   A small animal of Java ({Paradoxirus fasciatus}), allied to
   the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large
   quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to
   disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also {coffee
   rat}.