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Greatest length................ 449 .... 477 543* .... .... 497* 528 ....
Basilar length.................. 389 396 436 487* .... .... 453* 472 506*
Lateral length of frontal bone...... .... 151 170 169 185 .... 157 191 .... 198
Length of molars............... 62 59 .... 67 84 79 .... 72 .... ....
Length of premolars............. 80 .... .... 81 89 .... .... 91 .... ....
Length of diastema.............. 54 60 .... 89 .... .... .... 97 .... ....
Length of palate................ 200 189 .... 233 .... .... .... 267 .... ....
Length of dental series of lower jaw.. 144 .... .... 150 .... .... .... .... 178 ....
Length of diastema of lower jaw.... 58 .... .... 81 .... .... .... .... 74 ....
Width of ascending branch of lower
jaw......................... 106 .... .... 107 .... .... .... .... .... ....
Greatest length of lower jaw....... 334 .... .... 352 .... .... .... 421 .... ....
Length of frontal............... 102 173 .... 197 744 210 189 225* 250 245
Greatest height of skull........... 118 .... .... 126 .... .... 116 115 246 119
Greatest height of occipital........ 89 85 82 85 .... .... 74 89 111 110
Least height of occipital.......... 62 60 55 57 .... .... 47 52 .... 62
Greatest width of occipital........ 106 99 102 94 .... .... 89 109 114 108
Least width of occipital.......... 60 .... .... 54 .... .... 49 60 .... 67
Least width of frontal........... 71 64 70 81 84 80 74 72* 88 90
Greatest width of frontal......... 185 167 174 182 200 188 168 184* 202 209
Distance between interior corners of
orbits....................... 113 113 114 113 134 132 113 114* .... 143
Width of brain-skull between tem-
pora........................ .... 99 89 100 110 110 99 .... 110 110
Width between oral ends of crista
molaris...................... 138 133 132 148 162 150 148 .... .... 165
Width of corpus premaxillare....... 52 48 .... 62 .... .... .... .... 74 ....
Greatest width of nasalia......... 90 84 .... .... 110 .... 90 .... .... 112
Width of palate between molar 3.... 93 71 73 98 87 91 73 .... .... 95
Width of palate before premolar 2... 44 47 .... 61 58 .... .... .... .... ....

* Not exactly measurable.

THE BONES OF THE EXTREMITIES.

Referring to my comparative treatment of the bones of the extremities, in
chapter XVIII, I will, to avoid repetition, lay stress only on such characteristics
and dimensions of these bones as are of importance to our discussion; besides, I
will add the tarsal and femoral bones, which were omitted in the earlier discussion.
We have already noticed the marked slenderness of the scapula of Equus pum-
pellii, a feature which Frank* has already pointed out as a characteristic of the
Arabian-Oriental horse. Particularly noteworthy in comparison with the scapulæ
of the diluvial horse of Kesslerloch is the slight convexity of the contours of the
bone at the collum; the edge of the articulation and the tuberculum supraglenoidale
on the one hand and the squama on the other hand project very little over the
straight line; this helps to produce the general impression of great slenderness.
From this it is clear that the Roman horse of Vindonissa was almost as large as
a recent horse of Pinzgau.