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426   THE HORSE OP ANAU IN ITS VARIOUS RELATIONS.

Table of dimensions.

The variations in phalanx II can not be called particularly great. For the La Tène horse of Bohemia I find a length of 41 to 44 mm., with a width of 39 to 41 mm. ; in the Anau horse the corresponding dimensions were 37 to 42 and 31 to 4o mm. ; in the horses of Vindonissa, on the other hand, I find 42 to 45 mm. for length and 46 to 52 mm. for width; likewise for the Solutré horses 42 to 46 mm. for length, and 45 to 5o mm. for width. In the horses of Westeregeln these measurements may have been about 5o to 55 mm. Thus here we see again how narrow is the phalanx II of the Anau horse and how wide those of the horses of Vindonissa, Westeregeln and Solutré.

Concerning phalanx III it is to be remarked that the conditions are similar.

CALCULATED SIZES OF THE HORSES.

As final characteristic we may here once more tabulate the calculated absolute height of the horses (withers-height) .

cm.

Diluvial horse, Westeregeln, after Nehring   155

Equus przewalskii, io years old, stallion, after Grum-Grshimailo   153

Diluvial horse, Remagen   151

Siberian horse, Yana River, after Tscherski   146

Schlossberg (large breed)   146

Vindonissa   145

La Tène, after Marek   141

Auvernier, after Marek   738

ANAU, Equus caballus pumpellii   137

Ziel Canal (bronze time)   136

Equus przewalskii, adult stallion, after Salenski    I28

Solutré, after Gaillard   125

Equus przewalskii, young mare of Tsarski-selo, after Salenski   120

Schlossberg, small breed   118

No direct measurements have been made of the withers-height of Equus przewalskii, except on the young mare; in the other instances only the height of the croup has been measured. But Salenski gives for the same mare the croup-height of ii6 cm., that is, 4 cm. less than the measured withers-height ; I have, therefore, calculated on this basis an approximative withers-height for the two stallions, for which we had already the croup-heights of 147 and 124 cm. respectively. In doing this I consider that a centimeter can make little difference if we wish only to learn the approximate ranking of the horses among themselves,

Phalanx I.

Index.

Length.

Median width.

mm. 20-28 27-20 30-31

31

29

34-37

31-36

33

39-42

28

32

Anau   

La Tène, after Marek   

Gross Czernosek, La Tène time   

Lignitz, neolithic   

Spandau, bronze age   

Kesslerloch, paleolithic, Hescheler   

Solutré   

Vindonissa   

Briesen, Marcomannian time   

Westeregeln, after Nehring   

Przewalski horse   

Turkestan horse, after Nehring   

2.8-3.2 3.8-3.7 4.I-4.2 4.3

4.2

4.4 4.0-4.5 4.I 4.5-4.6 3.7

3.9

mm.

72-87

71-77

72-73

71

68

70-80

77-84

76-78

8o

86-91

75

81