300 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Typical locality probably Arabia. 



Size very large, back with one or two large fleshy humps 

 in median line ; dentition of adult : i. ^, c. \, p. §, m. |= 34 ; 

 anterior premolar placed nearly midway between second 

 tooth of that series and canine ; lower incisors somewhat 

 proclivous, with outer pair the largest ; skull elongated, with 

 overhanging occiput, orbits encircled by bone, and premaxillai 

 not articulating with arched and rather long nasals; ears 

 relatively short and rounded ; feet broad, with toes imper- 

 fectly separated ; tail of medium length, tufted ; hair nearly 

 straight, not woolly ; teats four. No face-glands, but a pair 

 of occipital glands. 



Eestricted at the present day to Asia and Africa, but 

 known in a wild state only in the neighbourhood of the Gobi 

 Desert of Central Asia. 



The genus is typified by the single-luimped Camclus 

 dromedarius, but as this species is unknown in the wild 

 state, it does not come within the purview of this Catalogue. 



CAMELUS BACTEIAmiS. 



Camelus bactrianus, Linn., Syst. Nat. etl. 10, vol. i, p. 65, 1758, 

 ed. 12, voL i, p. 90, 1766 ; H. SmitJt, Griffitli's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol.-v, p. 297, 1827; Hution, Jotirn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, voL xv, 

 p. 162, 1846 ; Gray, Cat. Ungulafa Brit. Mus. p. 253, 1852, Cat. 

 Biiminants Brit. Mus. p. 100, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 170, 1873; Radde, Reisen Ost-Siherien, p. 238, 1861; 

 Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 271, 1862 ; Scvcrtzow, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 170, 1876 ; Finscli, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 696 ; Przewalshi, Peters}}. Mitt. Erzh. 

 voL xii, p. 17, 1876 ; Blanford, Eastern Persia, vol. ii, p. 97, 

 1876, Fauna Brit, hidia, Mamm. p. 558, 1891; Flower and 

 Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 330, 1884 ; 

 W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Lid. Mus. pt. ii, p. 191, 1891; 

 Flower and Lydellier, Study of Mammals, p. 296, 1891 ; Little- 

 dale, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 446; Lcshre, Arcli. Mus. Lyon, 

 vol. viii, p. 1, 1903 ; Pococl-, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 973. 



Typical locality Eastern Europe or Western Asia. 



Larger and more clumsily built than the typical species, 

 with two dorsal humps, a thicker coat, shorter limbs, and 

 feet more callous and better adapted for hard and rocky 

 ground. 



Camels occur wild in the neighbourhood of the Tarim 

 Valley and other parts of Chinese Turkestan, but it is 



