THE BONES OF THE EXTREMITIES. A25 
where the forward and back parts come together—is just as much hollowed out 
in the Anau horse as in Equus stenonis, therefore much more deepened than in the 
Quaternary horses and in Equus przewalsku. The Anau horse has, therefore, in 
this respect also, preserved an ancient character. 
Table of dimensions. 









Length Width. Diameter. 
. Ai Greatest| of ex- : : 
eae ie) ed length. | terior ProXi-| Median | Distal |P'°X!"| Median Distal 
side, | mal part. | part ule part. | part Index. 
part. : wi Dat. ; 
mm, mm, | mm, mm, mm, | mm. mm. | mm. 
( —10 ft. North Kur- : E 
: CANS aoithoe tec onrtene 25 250 40 27 37 3 27 30 10.5 
Anat 4 fee6 fe. North Fur 
Peat. ere. 264 wees Eee 25 38 ae 25 31 9.5 
(| 214 205 41 24 40 3 20 30 rr. 
La Téne, Mus. Bern...... 4| 230 aa 38 23 37 33 ei 58 Paes 
Langugest, Slavian time....| 234 226 40 25 42 30 23 Rhys 10.5 
Schlossberg, irontime...... 237 228 44 28 44 41 28 37 11.8 
Spandau, bronze time...... 237 229 42 25 40 soy A bya he ie 10.6 
Gross Czernosek, La Téne...} 238 230 42 28 42 34 25 33 122 
Vindonissa castrum........ 242 235 47 31 46 42 26 34 T2252 
Gross Czernosek, Lausitz....| 246 238 46 30 45 38 27 52 11.8 
Schlossberg, large breed....| 256 250 44 30 45 40 29 ay T2326 
Equus przewalski juv., Bern ga! 250 46 25 44 39 23 ag 9.0 
es S| 25 252 50 35 51 44 32 35 Tas 
Solutré paleolithic . cack ‘| 258 247 56 ae 30 | 44 aa 33 igis 
Petersinsel, bronze time....| 259 250 45 27 41 27) 23 32 10.4 
Vindonissa circus.......... 260 253 48 30 47 40 27 34 Tin 
Equus przewalskii Salenski..| 262 252 49 31 47 rk piers ene 1 dats! 
Kesslerloch, paleolithic, after 
PICCCHOICL To af Kr ee tats | hae ees Peek ee IGOR SM x as ana sibechs Rare 
Hostomitz, iron time.......| 268 260 45 31 48 42 31 36 Rin 
Gross Czernosek, neolithic 
UEWTS(S 4S ves dana te OGG oa Gane: 273 265 50 29 47 43 29 38 10.6 
Schlossberg, large breed....| 274 260 50 aa 47 43 30 38 12,0 
Waincionissa Circus... ......-. 273 261 49 30 49 43 33 36 10.9 
Westeregeln, diluvial horse, 
piter- Nehring? a..-.2..- 281 270 56 37 Coe Mere ais oes oe 
Remagen, diluvial horse, 
aster. Nehring’); i550. 285 ae 60 39 Ly le Bese Bete eat i426 









With respect not only to the metacarpi, but also to the metatarsi, the limbs of 
the horse of Anau appear remarkably slender and much more gracile than in the 
horse of La Téne and of Schlossberg. The indices show this very clearly; still, it 
must be remarked that the horse of Solutré, according to the metatarsi before me, 
is not nearly so thick-footed as the diluvial horse of Westeregeln and some of the 
Roman horses from Vindonissa. 
Phalanges.—The abundant quantity of phalanges before me from the North 
Kurgan at Anau was sufficiently considered in the earlier chapter; therefore, I 
will give here only a comparison of the mean of all of the 29 Anau phalanges with 
those of the most important European horses. 
In respect to their index of width the phalanges of the Anau horse are uncom- 
monly typical. No other horse has an index of 2.8; even the La Tene horse is 
far from approaching it. Jt 7s just in this uncommon slenderness of phalanx I that 
I see the main evidence of desert life and of training for speed, since the Przewalski 
horse (3.7), and even the Turkestan horse of Nehring (3.9) show the next indices. 

