220 DOG OF THE TENGGER. 



So far Dr. Kohlbrugge. — He was kind enough to 

 present to the Leyden Museum two complete skeletons — 

 the animals were in a very putrified condition as he pro- 

 cured them — besides the right half of the skin of the 

 head of perhaps the last wild Tenggerese dog! A fine 

 photograph representing the author with three Tenggerese 

 dogs accompanied the copy of the above mentioned paper 

 which Dr. Kohlbrugge forwarded to me. 



The skull (Plate 4) shows that the right upper premolar 

 is wanting , accidentally however as its alveolus is present, 

 and the left upper premolar is absent, that the third left 

 lower premolar is wanting like the hindmost lower molars — 

 their alveoli are present — and that the first right lower 

 premolar is absent. The anterior palatine foramina are very 

 large. Very remarkable seems to me the shape of the pos- 

 terior margin of the palate ; I failed to discover a similar 

 structure in other Car^'s-species , the other not figured 

 Tenggerese-skull shows it too. For the rest I only may 

 recommend every one to compare our photo's with skulls 

 of other dogs : one good photograph tells more than a 

 thousand lines. 



In the skeleton there are 13 dorsal vertebrae with 13 

 ribs, 7 lumbar and 3 sacral vertebrae, like in other 

 Canine-species, caudal vertebrae however less in number 

 than in Canis familiaris and its varities , namely 18. 



With the Dingo of Australia it has in common that 

 the humerus is longer than the radius and the femur than 

 the tibia, that their origin is absolutely unknown and 

 that it may be regarded like the Dingo as a truly wild 

 and at the same time a true and perfect dog (see Mivart's 

 Monograph of the Canidae, 1890, p. 153). 



A drawing in water-color was taken by my daughter 

 from the imperfect flat skin of the head mentioned above: 

 plate 5 represents it reduced V3 of natural size. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XVIII. 



