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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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The peculiar form of these bones and the curvature of the horn-cores make
it certain that they belong to a female Ovis vignei. Which bones of the trunk
and extremities are to be assigned to the Ovis vignei it is naturally difficult to say.
Only out of the difference in size, as contrasted with those of Ovis palustris, is
it possible to draw some slight inferences. Therefore we will be right in assigning
all the large extremity bones from the lower culture-strata to the wild sheep,
while bringing them into the same tables with the domesticated sheep.
Domestic Sheep.
We now pass to the consideration of a series of horn-cores which are sharply
distinguished, as I have already said, from those of the Ovis vignei. They are
of almost similar aspect and form, but are shorter, somewhat more slender, and
lighter and more porous in structure. This last characteristic seems particularly
important; as except for it I might properly be confronted with the objection
that these horn-cores perhaps belonged to younger or female individuals of the
Ovis vignei. This objection, however, is contradicted by the more porous structure,
the more extensive formation of sinus in the interior of the horn-core and their
consequently thinner walls; for it is firmly established, that under domestication
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