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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 | |
トルキスタンの調査 1904年 : vol.2 |
CAVICORNIA.
371
Now, Anau lies just at the foot of the Kopet Dagh and within the area of distribution of Ovis vignei arkal; it is, therefore, most probable that we have to do with the remains of a mountain sheep still living in the Kopet Dagh and not with those of an inhabitant of the broad steppes of Persia and Asia Minor. We can, therefore, reasonably exclude the Ovis orientalis, i. e., the steppe form of the wild sheep, from further consideration and say logically that we have before us Ovis vignei arkal Lydekker. As I am not able to give a direct comparison of our horn-cores with the original skulls of the Kopet Dagh sheep in the British Museum,
I shall take for comparison two skulls of Ovis vignei that are preserved in Berlin and London, and shall contrast them with the measurements of the Ovis ophion of Cyprus and the Persian Ovis arkal seu orientalis. From these measurements it results that the agreement is closest with Ovis vignei cycloceros of the Punjab, and that the difference in dimensions of the two recent Ovis vignei skulls from Ladak and the Punjab is more noticeable than that between the skulls of Anau and all the others here brought into comparison with them.
Table of dimensions (in millimeters).
*Measurements taken on the horns, and not on the horn-cores.
It is clear that we have here a wild sheep that corresponds excellently well with the Ovis vignei. The horn measurements given by Lydekker for the Ovis vignei of the Kopet Dagh, if applied to the horn-cores in the manner followed with the skulls already mentioned, would correspond to a longitudinal diameter of about 7o mm. and a transverse diameter of about 54 mm., and would, therefore, agree very closely with the horn-cores of the Anau wild sheep from the culture period I a in the depth of — 15 feet.
Punjab.
Ovis
viones
cycloceros,
Mus.
Berlin.
Cyprus.
Ovis
ophion,
Mus.
London.
Ladak. Ovis vionei, No. 666, London.
Persia . Ovis arkal, Mus. Paris.
North Kurgan. Arrau.
Skull.
—21 feet.
—15 feet.
+ 26 feet.
Greatest width of frontal bones
Least width of saine
Front line between base of horn-cores
Back line between base of same
Greatest width of occiput
Least width of same
Greatest height of same
Least height of same
Greatest width of parietals
Least width of same
Parietal height
Longitudinal diameter of horn-base..
Longitudinal diameter of base of
horn-core
Transverse diameter of base of horn . .
Transverse diameter of base of horn-
core
Circumference of horn-base
Circumference of base of horn-core
Length of horn-core
Distance between joints
i27
94
17*
89*
78
51
56
42
82
51
33
77
52
44
32
195
175
220
360
125
93
22*
103*
79 6o
64
47 8o
54
33 7o
54
57
42
205
18o
134
98
~5*
I18*
88
58
546
4
83
55
37
85
58
58
.l1
200 18o
70
53
200
67
43
I70
145
III
18*
133*
96
62
64
52
89
6o
3o
95
63
69
44
200
18o
I25 95 23 73 83 55 54 43 91 57 3o
62
45
I 8o 25o
310
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