THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
Measurements of skulls. 
Somaliland. 
Bogosland 
Vo. 2961, c?. 
(Heugliu), cl. 
mm. 
mm. 
Extreme length of skull from premaxillary to external 
occipital 
protuberance. 
288 
211 
Lower border of foramen magnum to tip of premaxillar 
ies . 
• 
154 
149 
Length from front of upper margin of orbital ridge to tip 
of 
premaxillaries. 
120 
128 
Length from front of upper margin of orbital ridge to 
external 
occipital protuberance. 
115 
114 
Minimum frontal diameter. 
57 
57 
Greatest zygomatic breadth. 
126 
123 
Breadth across centre of orbital region. 
92 
90 
Vertical height of orbit at middle. 
26 
22 
Transverse breadth of orbit. 
32 
29 
Breadth of base of muzzle immediately before and under 
orbits 
51 
50 
Greatest breadth of muzzle external to first premolar . 
• • 
• 
51 
49 
Lower border of foramen magnum to posterior border of palate 
• 
49 
50 
Length of palate. 
100 
100 
Breadth of palate between middle of last molar . . . 
26 
26 
,, ,, first premolars. 
31 
30 
Extreme length of lower jaw. 
150 
151 
Greatest vertical depth of lower jaw. 
68 
? 
„ antero-posterior extent of symphysis . . . 
48 
49 
,, transverse breadth of symphysis (alveolar border 
to 
posterior root of 1st pm.). 
34 
35 
Length of 1st upper molar. 
11 
10-5 
2nd „ .. . . . 
13 
13 
„ . 
13 
13-5 
j, 1st lower molar. 
10 
10 
„ 2nd „ .. . . 
12-7 
13 
3 ) 3id „ . 
]6'5 
18 
The species of ape held sacred by the ancient Egyptians appears without doubt to 
have been the Hamadryas baboon, and the mature male with his complete mantle of 
hair is alone represented as worshipped. It is very prominent in Egyptian art as the 
attendant or representative of Thoth, the god of letters and scribe of the gods. 
It is worthy of notice that the name of that deity ditfers very little from the word ‘ Tota ’ 
or ‘ Tata,’ applied in some parts of Abyssinia, according to Hemprich and Ehrenhergi, 
to the baboon Papio hamadryas. Also these travellers quote Ludolf as having indicated, 
1 Symb. Pliys. dec. i. 
