28o Game of FAirope, W. & N. Asia 8c America 



the eye is lilack. ; and the ears are clothed witli brown hair, darker than 

 that of the heatl and hack. 



"The skulls are very similar to those of the European wild hoar, hut 

 present, nevertheless, several marked differences from tiie only example 

 1 have for comparison, that of a male from Hungary. The first difference 

 to be noticed is that, in both the skulls from Turkestan, the occipital 

 plane makes a more obtuse angle with the base of the skull, and a more 

 acute one with the superior one." 



The author then proceeds to notice certain other structural differences 

 in the skulls of the forms which it would he out of place to quote on this 

 occasion. Having done this, he concludes as tollows : — 



" How tar these differences entitle the Thian Shan pig to specific 

 differences I cannot say without mucli better means of comparison than I 

 at present possess. If the cranial differences pointed out are never tound 

 in European pigs, and if the black legs are equally unknown in typical 

 S//S scrofiU the animal of Turkestan may have fair claims to be separated." 



THE WILD HORSE, OR TARPAN 



[Eqiiiis Ciihallus fcnis) 



The uncertainty as to whether any of the two- humped Bactrian 

 camels roaming at large over the wastes of Central Asia are wild in the 

 proper sense of the word has been already mentioned. A similar state 

 of uncertainty exists with regard to the troops of horses which wander 

 over the same tracts. Although the Russian naturalist Pallas appears 

 to have been convinced that these tarpan, as they are called, are indigenous 

 inhabitants of the steppes, many later writers retused to accept this view, 

 and regarded these horses as the descendants of animals escaped from 

 captivity. Of late years, however, there has been a tendency to revert to 

 the earlier opinion, which is supported by Dr. A. Nehring, of Berlin, in 



