Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 2. (Budapest 1952)

Szunyoghy, J.: The effect of castration on the skull of the domestic cat, and the establishment of differentiating characters on the skulls of the domestic cat and the wild cat

The Main Craniometric measurements of the Largest Felis catus L. and Felis silvestris S с h r e b e r. Specimens in the Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. 4 Measurements

3 Jz = z — t; со > 3 J| -r S = z £ = Z = z = Z ÙL •s. О = z LU Basal length (B—P) 85 79,5 73,3 73,8 90 83,8 77,8 Profil length (A—P) 105 95,6 88,7 90,3 107 104 97 Facial length (P—N) 38,4 35,2 32 31,7 40,8 39,6 37,8 Length of brain case (B

—N) 72 68 63 66 76 72 66 Median length of parietals (Br

—L) 48 34,5 32,8 29,8 35,3 42,5 35 Length of maxillar tooth-row ; premolars to molars (Pm

—Pd) 23 22,1 21 22,2 24 24 22,5 Length from prosthion to postdentale 32,2 (P—Pd) 33 32,3 29 28,8 35,7 34,3 32,2 Zygomatic breadth (Zy

—Zy) 72,5 67 66 60 77 77,7 • 65,4 Frontal breadth (Ect

—Ect) 60 54,2 49,8 47 52,5 55 48 Interorbital constriction 34,1 32 31,2 30 32,3 33,5 33,5 Breadth of brain case (Eu

—

Eu) 47,4 43,4 42,2 41,5 47,8 49 46 Breadth of brain case between the otions (Ot—Ot) 47,6 42,4 41,5 39,7 46,1 45,8 43,5 Greatest heigth of skull from the table's surface 53 48 47 46 53,5 54,2 51 Mandibular length (Goc

—Id) 66,8 63,5 58,5 57,1 71,1 69,7 «2 Mandibular tooth-row ; premolars to molars 20 •20,9 18,5 18,7 24 22,3 22,3 Bibliography : 1. M i 1 1 e r, G. : Catalogue of the Mammals of Western Europe (London 1912, p. 458). — 2. В a u m a n n, F.: Die freilebenden Säugetiere der Schweiz (Bern, 1941. p. 298). — 3. Blasius, I. H. : Naturgeschichte der Säugethiere Deutschlands (Braunschweig, 1857, p. 163., 167., 168.). — 4." Ognev, S. I.: The Mammals of the USSR and Adjacen. Countries (in The Mammals of Eastern Europe and Nothern Asia. Moscow

—Leningrad Volt III. 1935. p. 124.). — 5. Z i m m e r m a n n, A. & G. : Д házimacska (Budapest, 1944. p. 5.) Explanation of Plates

4 Plate IX. Fig. 1. Felis catus L. Castr. $ Skull of adult specimen, dorsal view; No. 9. Fig. 2. Felis catus L. Castr. $ Skull of adult specimen, ventral view ; No. 9. Fig. 3. Felis silvestris Schreber $ Skull of adult specimen, dorsal view No. 4527. Fig. 4. Felis silvestris Schreber Q Skull of adult specimen, ventral view ; No. 2916. Plate X. I Fig. 5. Felis catus L. $ Skull of adult specimen, lateral view ; No. 4. Fig. 6. Felis catus L. Ç Skull of adult specimen,, dorsal view ; No. 8. Fig. 7. Felis silvestris Schreber $ Skull of adult specimen, lateral view ; No. 2916 Fig. 8. Felis catus L. Castr. Skull of adult specimen, lateral view ; No: 9. Plate XI. Fig. 9. Felis silvestris Schreber $ Skull of juvenile specimen, dorsal view; No. 4441/2 Fig. 10. Felis catus L. $ Skull of juvenile specimen, dorsal view; No. 13. Fig .11. Felis silvestris Schreber Right mandible of adult specimen, lateral view ; No. 4527. 3 All measurements are based on the work of U. J. Duerst: Vergleichende Untersuchungsmethoden am Skelett der Säuger, (in : Abderhaldens Hdb. d. biol. Arbeitsmeth. Abt. VII. H. 2, 1926.). 4 The figures of the plates are originals by the author. 180