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The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma

1888

The Secretary of State for India in Council upon the recommendation of the Government of India gave his sanction in 1883 to a plan for the preparation of the works most urgently required and etrusted the editorship of the series to the present writer. [...] The length of the head and body from the tip of the nose to the insertion of the tail and the length of the tail are naturally of little value when taken from skins ; these two dimensions are given when possible in the following pages the tail measurement being without the hair if data are available. [...] Other measurements often cited are those of the ear usually from the crown of the head sometimes from the external base or from the orifice and of the pes or hind foot including the tarsus from:the joint corresponding to the heel in man and the hock in a horse to the end of the longest toe the claws not being included unless their inclusion is specified. [...] Two measurements of the skull are generally given :—the basal length from the anterior or lower margin of the foramen magnun7I to the anterior border of the premaxillaries the incisor teeth not being included ; and the zygomatic breadth across the widest part of the zygomatic arches.. [...] The extreme length of the skull somtimes recorded is either from the posterior surface or from the supraoccipital to the end of the premaxillaries or in some skulls to the end of the nasals.
agriculture environment
Pages
644
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142267
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxv W.T. Blanford view
Mammalia
1-52 unknown view
Eluroidea
53-134 unknown view
Cynoidea
134-155 unknown view
Arctoidea
156-481 unknown view
Pecora
481-553 unknown view
Tragulina
554-558 unknown view
Suina
559-600 unknown view
Appendix and Errata
601-602 unknown view
Alphabetical Index
603-617 unknown view

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