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height of the bregma is 49 7, and the index of the height of the 

 vertex is 56 ; but in connection with these somewhat low figures 

 tlie great length of the glabello inion line has to be taken into 

 account. 



Scott's records sliows that of seventy-six Maori skulls measured 

 by him 434 per cent, were dolichocephalic. Three had cephalic 

 indices under 70, viz., 699, 69-6, and 69-1. None were so low 

 as in this Whangarei skull. The vertical indices of those three 

 were 72, 68 and 701 respectively. In none of the three was the 

 absolute height so great — being 134, 132 and 136mm. respectively. 

 Investigations by Flower and Turner bear out Scott's figures 

 regaidiiig Maoris. The vertical index of the Whangarei skull is 

 prol>al)ly 774, much higher than the average of the Auckland 

 skulls measured by Scott and of the Whangarei skulls measured 

 by Flower, although within the range found in other Maori skulls 

 possessing a higher cephalic index. 



The vault corresponds generally with what is not unusual in 

 Maori skulls, being rafter-shaped with a median ridge and show- 

 ing a flattening of the parietal legion between the ridge and the 

 eminences, giving the skull, as has l)een noted, a pentagonal 

 outline when viewed from behind. The sutures have the same 

 characters as are found in Maori skulls, and the temporal ridges 

 also run above the parietal eminences. 



Of a total of fifty Moriori skulls examined by Scott and 

 Duckworth, nine {i.e., eighteen per cent.) are dolichocephalic. 

 Maori skulls show about forty-three per cent, of dolichocephalic 

 specimens. Scott found no Moriori skull with a cephalic index 

 below 70 ; and among ten Cambridge specimens described by 

 Duckworth the lowest was 731. In respect to this index and 

 also to the great height compared with the width, the Whangarei 

 skull difters greatly from the Moriori, although in some features 

 there may be a resemblance. 



One would certainly not expect to find such a skull as the 

 Whangarei one among Morioris, and although it might possibly 

 occur among Maoris its appearance would be somewhat pheno- 

 menal even in that race notwithstanding the mixed racial 

 characters of the Maoris. 



One must search elsewhere in order to find a race in which the 

 members usually possess the cranial chaiacter exhibited by the 

 Whangarei skull, viz., strongly dolichocephalic, with a high verti- 

 cal index, the height being greater than the breadth, the cranial 

 vault roof-shaped, the glabella and superciliary ridges fairly 

 marked and the root of the nose not greatly depressed. Skulls 

 with these characters well marked in the majority of the indivi- 



