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of the stylo-hyal are much shorter and stouter in the Sheep. The 
Antelopes conform more with Saiga in the contour and slenderness 
of their hyoidean elements, and more so than do the generality of 
the Deer. 
Fig. 12. 

Head of the male Saiga in its winter coat. From a drawing made under the 
author’s supervision while the animal was living in the Gardens*. 
The trachea, as noted by Pallas, is large. The cartilaginous rings, 
forty-nine in number, are wide, and do not meet behind, the fibrous 
* T am indebted to Mr. Glass, the editor of ‘ Land and Water,’ for the use of 
. this woodblock. Remarks on the animal, by Mr. Blyth, will be found in that 
publication for 14th December, 1867. 
