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In their dimensions they are similar to those of the palustris sheep. A horn- 
core, unfortunately preserved only with the basal part, belonging to an old indi- 
vidual, and marked as an old he-goat by distinct frontal bumps, is the only one 
that shows any larger measurements. 
Table of dimensions (in millimeters). 




| Proxi- Me- : Longi-| Trans-| ,. 
Length, |e) mal) ME | dian [Distal BS! cadinal verse | eum 
Detain diam- | width diam- | width. ater diam- | diam- eehaee 
Veter. eter. DRpGLeE, Weeler. ial 
| 
| HORN-CORES: 
Anau 
) Female cords ene TSM te ee! ees ack it -scs es 20 14 73 
| Penile is Gan wares EOE re Abaco ae Naan es Piety MSE 19 85 
Wale crepes sk. ie ssrcs Sele Pe Gi omnes ll Geese Mek ot ai al Oat ieee | re eg 40 28 |ca.120 
Capra hircus, male, Tur- 
kestan, Mus. Paris.... 250 SCAG ot tees, alec Re eee eo ee 54 39 150 
Capra hircus, Malay 
Archipelago, coll. by 
Hombrone and. Jac- 
GR TVSNO EA aia oe 100 ete Were vcaigerurce Theres Ms Gs fe ota « 26 15 74 
Capra cretensis Brisson, 
Crete, Mus. Paris. 120 Ce Le MIE oreSs taal ros iat Wetsiohs s alyteaaces 22 13 65 
METACARPUS: 
Anau 
Xda. Mewes eee 102 26: 16 15 9 Pig) 16 
TENGE ONG: Rene re 6 re 98 20 14 14 8 23 13 
Anau City, M.S. 1v, — 16 
to —17 feet, recent....| .... “OOo Berke Cee 9 25 15 stan 
Gross Czernosek, Bohe- 
mia, Mus. Teplitz. . 99 20 14 x2 8 24 I4 
Stockholm, Kungstrad- 
garden (King’s Gar- 
dens): : 
Subfossil goats*.... 102 23 Hours 16 eee 23 Oe SMAI poate Ie ees eames at 
Subfossil sheep | 
after Kinberg, ( 107 22-5 15 27 
SAGE: yf el oe . 98 22 14 24 
( 102 18 ane 10 ia 20 Peco Se eet Pee Oh ft 
Schlossberg, Ovis aries 
DOLUSENUS arr eae ti 103 18 12 8 7 9 8 
Sardegna, Ovis musimon, 
COUP Duerstem ree ee 135 28 21 14 12 25 17 












*Kinberg, T. G., ‘‘Ossa metacarpi et metatarsi, Ovis et Capre.’’ Ofversigt Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akadem. Forhandlinger, 
1869, pp. 359-433. 
Although Riitimeyer* states that only the hoof phalanges and joint-surfaces 
of the bones are useful in deciding between the goats and the sheep and that the 
goat shows a deerlike delicacy of the bones, later investigationst have shown 
that the metacarpalia and tarsalia are good characteristics for a diagnosis, since, 
contrary to the general view as well as to Rtitimeyer’s assertion, these bones 
are much broader and shorter in the goat than in the sheep. 
This appears clearly in the above dimensions, since the distal width of an 
equally long metacarpus of a goat and a palustris sheep is three times as great 
in the former as in the latter (27 mm.: 9 mm). 


* Fauna der Pfahlbauten, p. 127. 
+Cornevin et Lesbre, Caractéres ostéologiques differentiels de la chévre et du mouton. Bull. Soc. 
Anthrop., Lyon, 1891. Kriz, Martin, Die Hoehlen in den maehrischen Devon-Kalken, ete. Jahrbuch der 
k. k. geolog. Reichsanstalt, Wien, pp. 443-579. 
