EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
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CAVICORNIA. 381<br />
In their dimensions they are similar to those of the palustris sheep. A horncore,<br />
unfortunately preserved only with the basal part, belonging to an old individual,<br />
and marked as an old he-goat by distinct frontal bumps, is the only one<br />
that shows any larger measurements.<br />
Table of dimensions (in millimeters).<br />
HORN-CORES:<br />
Anau:<br />
Female..........<br />
IFemale...........<br />
Male .............<br />
Capra hircus, male, 'urkestan,<br />
Mus. Paris....<br />
Capra hiircus, Malay i<br />
Archipelago, coll. bv<br />
Hombrone and Jacqueminot<br />
...........<br />
Capra cretcnsis Brisson,<br />
Crete, Mus. Paris.<br />
Proxi-<br />
Iength. I mal<br />
width.<br />
105<br />
I 10<br />
250<br />
100<br />
120<br />
Proxi- Memnal-<br />
le- i dian<br />
diam- idth diameter.<br />
idth.<br />
eler. ,-<br />
,' eter.<br />
i<br />
DitI . Longi- Trans- irum-<br />
DistDisti stal tudinal verse<br />
d<br />
width i~~·iclt h diam- - r: i _1_:Ji ian - ference<br />
eter.<br />
eter. cter. at base.<br />
I<br />
.... \ 26<br />
.... 3I<br />
.... 40<br />
*.... 54<br />
.... 26<br />
.... 2-2<br />
14<br />
I()<br />
28<br />
39<br />
I5<br />
13<br />
73<br />
85<br />
Ca. 120<br />
150<br />
74<br />
65<br />
METACARPUS:<br />
Anau:<br />
A dult.............<br />
A dult .............<br />
Anau City, M. S. IV, - 6<br />
to - 7 feet, recent....|<br />
('ross Czernosek, Bohemia,<br />
Mus. Teplitz..<br />
Stockhloln, Kungstradgarden<br />
(King's Gardens):<br />
Subfossil goats*...<br />
Subfossil shee) I<br />
a f t e r Kinberg, (|<br />
p. 373* ...... .<br />
Schlossl)erg, Oz'is aries<br />
palusris ............<br />
Sardegna, (Ois mulsilmon,<br />
coll. Duerst........<br />
''' i<br />
102<br />
98<br />
99<br />
102<br />
107<br />
98<br />
102<br />
103<br />
135<br />
23<br />
20<br />
I 23<br />
20 !<br />
2.5<br />
22<br />
18<br />
I 8<br />
23<br />
1)<br />
14<br />
14<br />
. ...<br />
. ...<br />
12<br />
21<br />
i<br />
I<br />
I<br />
15 9 27<br />
4 28 23<br />
14 9 25<br />
12 R X l<br />
*_ i 1, - I I<br />
16<br />
14<br />
10<br />
8<br />
I4<br />
12<br />
7<br />
23<br />
27<br />
24<br />
20<br />
25<br />
9<br />
1I i .... ...<br />
13 . . .. . . . .<br />
15<br />
14<br />
. ...<br />
I ...<br />
8<br />
17<br />
i<br />
I .. . .<br />
I<br />
..<br />
I<br />
...<br />
.... I<br />
...<br />
*Kinberg, T. G., "Ossa inetacarpi ct metatarsi, Ovis et Capra."<br />
1869, pp. 359-433.<br />
Ofversigt Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akadem. IForhandlinger,<br />
Although Riitimeyer* states that only the hoof phalanges and joint-surfaces<br />
of the bones are useful in deciding between the goats and the sheep and that the<br />
goat shows a deerlike delicacy of the bones, later investigationst have shown<br />
that the metacarpalia and tarsalia are good characteristics for a diagnosis, since,<br />
contrary to the general view as well as to Riitimeyer's assertion, these bones<br />
are much broader and shorter in the goat than in the sheep.<br />
This appears clearly in the above dimensions, since the distal width of an<br />
equally long metacarpus of a goat and a palustris sheep is three times as great<br />
in the former as in the latter (27 mm.: 9 mm).<br />
*Fauna der Pfahlbauten, p. 127.<br />
tCornevin et Lesbre, Caracteres osttologiques differentiels de la chvre et du mouton. Bull. Soc.<br />
Anthrop.,Lyon, 1891. Kriz, Martin, Die Hoehlen in den maehrischen Devon-Kalken, etc. Jahruchl der<br />
k. k. geolog. Reichsanstalt, Wien, pp. 443-570.
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