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THE NATURAL HISTOET EEYIE\T. 



in the skull last described, tlie tendency to klinocephalism is less 

 apparent. As in that specimen, there are slight traces of a " beak" 

 in the centre of the biparietal. Both in the vertical and profile 

 view, especially the former, the narrow and abnormally eloDgate form 



Fig. G.—Sulj-scaphocephalic Skull from BowVs Barrow, SoiUh Wiltshire. 



of this skull is well seen. It is a very characteristic specimen of sub- 

 scapho cephalic synostosis. 



Fig. 7. — Front view of the same Skull — Fig. 8. — Vertical view of the same Skull — 

 quarter Diameter. quarter Diameter. 



The above are the only examples of complete fusion of the 

 parietals which have come lo my knowledge in the skulls from 



