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Horn-cores:
Anau:
Female .......... 105 .... .... .... .... .... .... 26 14 73
Female .......... 110 .... .... .... .... .... .... 31 19 85
Male ............ .... .... .... .... .... .... 40 28 ca. 120
*Capra hircus*, male, Tur-
kestan, Mus. Paris. 250 .... .... .... .... .... .... 51 39 150
*Capra hircus*, Malay
Archipelago, coll. by
Hombrone and Jac-
queminot ........ 100 .... .... .... .... .... .... 26 15 74
*Capra cretensis* Brisson,
Crete, Mus. Paris. 120 .... .... .... .... .... .... 22 13 65

Metacarpus:
Anau:
Adult ........... 102 23 16 15 9 27 16 .... ....
Adult ........... 98 20 14 14 8 23 13 .... ....
Anau City, M. S. IV, — 16
to — 17 feet, recent. .... .... 14 9 25 15 .... ....
Gross Czernosek, Bohe-
mia, Mus. Teplitz 99 20 14 12 8 24 14 .... ....
Stockholm, Kungstrad-
garden (King's Gar-
dens):
Subfossil goats* ... 102 23 .... 16 .... 23 .... .... ....
Subfossil sheep
after Kinberg, { 107 22.5 .... 15 .... 27 .... .... ....
p. 373* ....... { 98 22 .... 14 .... 24 .... .... ....
{ 102 18 .... 10 .... 20 .... .... ....
Schlossberg, *Ovis aries
palustris* ......... 103 18 12 8 7 9 8 .... ....
Sardegna, *Ovis musimon*,
coll. Duerst ..... 135 23 21 14 12 25 17 .... ....

*Kinberg, T. G., "Ossa metacarpi et metatarsi, Ovis et Capra." Öfversigt Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akadem. Forhandlinger,
1869, pp. 359-433.

Although Rütimeyer* 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 investigations† have shown
that the metacarpalia and tarsalia are good characteristics for a diagnosis, since,
contrary to the general view as well as to Rütimeyer'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.). •