80 
SECOND YABKAND MISSION, 
passages is not completely divided. The palatine hones terminate near their suture in small 
points projecting backwards. The anterior palatine foramina are shorter, broader, and very 
differently shaped, being much more oval and not acuminate behind. The zygomatic arch 
is deeper, and the ante-orbital foramen is less open and has a thread-like horizontal process 
stretched partly or completely across its orifice. 
How far these differences entitle the Thian-Shan pig to specific distinction I cannot 
say without much better means of comparison than I possess at present. If the cranial 
differences pointed out are never found in European pigs, and if the black legs are equally 
unknown in typical Sus scrofa, the animal of Turkestan may have fair claims to be separated. 
The following are comparative measurements of the two 
skulls 
from the Thian 
mountains, and of the Hungarian skull already referred to — 
Yarkand. 
Hungarian, 
r 
$ 
? 
$ 
Metre. 
Metre. 
Metre. 
Length of the skull from occipital condyle to anterior margin 
of premaxilla ....... 
• • 
•377 
•352 
•372 
Height of whole skull and lower mandible 
• • 
•250 
•226 
•239 
Length of superior surface from occipital crest to 
anterior 
margin of premaxilla ...... 
• • 
•431 
•405 
•397 
Length of superior surface from occipital crest to 
anterior 
margin of nasal bones ..... 
. 
•210 
•207 
•207 
Breadth of skull across zygomatic arches 
• • 
•179 
■158 
T60 
Ditto between orbits .... 
■ • 
•098 
•083 
•098 
Ditto across sinciput where narrowest in 
front of 
occipital crest. ....... 
» • 
•020 
•020 
•024 
Length of all the upper molar teeth taken together. 
• * 
•131 
•128 
•122 
Ditto from hinder edge of bony palate to anterior margin of 
premaxilla ........ 
•260 
•248 
•262 
Breadth of palate between anterior premolars 
• • 
•054 
•044 
•050 
Ditto ditto last molars . 
• * 
•036 
•029 
•032 
Length of anterior palatine opening 
• * 
■018 
•017 
•020 
Breadth of ditto ...... 
• * 
•008 
•0075 
•006 
Length of lower jaw ...... 
•315 
•291 
•305 
Height of ditto ...... 
• ■ 
•140 
•136 
•136 
Whether this form is the common pig of Turkestan or not I have no means of ascer¬ 
taining ; neither Severtzoff nor Prejevalski mention any peculiarities in the colour or 
structure of the wild swine noticed by them. The only Central Asiatic hog hitherto distin¬ 
guished from S. scrofa is the S. moupinensis of A. Milne Edwards 1 from Eastern Tibet, and 
it is uncertain whether this is not Himalayan (i. e., oriental) and not Tibetan, 
Family —B 0 VID2E. 
51. OVIS KAKELINI. 
Severtzoff, Turk. Jev., pp. 84, 86, 150, Pis. I, V, fig. 3, YI, figs. 3, 4 ;=—Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 
Ser 4, xviii, pp. 171, 210, 217,—V. and B. Brooke, P. Z. S-, 1875, p 512- 
Ovispoli, Stoliczka, P Z, S., 1874, p. 425, PL LIII, (figura mala), nee Blyth. 
1 Eech. Mam., I, p. 877, Pis. LXXX, LXXXL 
