Ji 
80 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
passages is not completely divided. The palatine bones terminate near their suture m s ^ y 
points projecting backwards. The anterior palatine foramina are shorter, broader, ana 
differently shaped, being much more oval and not acuminate behind. The zygomat 
is deeper, and the ante-orbital foramen is less open and has a thread-like horizontal P 
stretched partly or completely across its orifice. _ >JS T 
How far these differences entitle the Thian-Shan pig to specific distinction I c 
say without much better means of comparison than I possess at present. If the c 1 
differences pointed out are never found in European pigs, and if the black legs are e 4 £ 
unknown in typical Sus scrofa, the animal of Turkestan may have fair claims to he sepa 
The following are comparative measurements of the two skulls from the Tluan- 
mountains, and of the Hungarian skull already referred to— 
Length, of the skull from occipital condyle to anterior margin 
of premaxilla 
Height of whole skull and lower mandible . . • • 
Length of superior surface from occipital crest to anteiioi 
margin of premaxilla 
Length of superior surface from occipital crest to anterior 
margin of nasal bones 
Breadth of skull across zygomatic arches .... 
Ditto between orbits 
Ditto across sinciput where narrowest in front of 
occipital crest. 
Length of all the upper molar teeth taken together. 
Ditto from hinder edge of bony palate to anterior margin of 
premaxilla 
Breadth of palate between anterior premolars 
Ditto ditto last molars . 
Length of anterior palatine opening 
Breadth of ditto .... 
Length of lower jaw .... 
Height of ditto .... 
Yarkand- 
Hungarian. 
r 
s 
$ 
$ 
Metre. 
Metre. 
Metre. 
•377 
■352 
•372 
•250 
•226 
•239 
•431 
•405 
•397 
•219 
•207 
•207 
•179 
•158 
•160 
•098 
•083 
•098 
•020 
•020 
•024 
•131 
•128 
•122 
•260 
•248 
•262 
•054 
•044 
•050 
•036 
•029 
•032 
•018 
•017 
•u20 
•008 
•0075 
•006 
•315 
•291 
•305 
•140 
•136 
•136 
it I have no 
means of 
Whether this form is the common pig of Turkestan or not 
taining ; neither Severtzoff nor Prejevalsld mention any peculiarities m the 0 ^ 
structure of the wild swine noticed by them. The only Central Asiatic hog hit ie * 
guished from S. scrofa is the S. moupinensis of A. Milne Edwards 1 from. Eastern 1 
it is uncertain whether this is not Himalayan (i. e., oriental) and not .Tibetan. 
0 ' 
t oi 
0 ' 
&& 
Family — BOVIDJE. 
51. OVIS KABELINI. 
Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., pp. 84, 86, 150, Pis. I, V, fig. 3, VI, figs. 3, 4 Ann. Mag- ^ at 
Ser 4, xviii, pp. 171, 210, 217,— V. and B. Brooke, P. Z • S-, 1875, p 512. 
Ovis poll, Stoliczka, P Z. S., 1874, p. 425, Pi. LIII, (figwa mala), nec Blyth. 
1 Eedh. Mam., I, p. 377, Pis. LXXX, LXXXI 
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