Scott. — Osteology of the Maori and Moriori. 7 



Those in the second group were found on the shores of Cook 

 Strait and the hne of coast running northwards towards Cape 

 Egmont. This contains ten adult skulls, one of which was 

 found on the southern shore of the Strait, in the Nelson Pro- 

 vince. I have, however, included it in this table because this 

 part of the South Island was mainly peopled by Natives from 

 the opposite coast. There are thirteen skulls in the third 

 group, twelve adults and one child, from the Bay of 

 Islands and the neighbourhood of Auckland. 



In analysing these two tables, I give the results, as far as 

 possible, in tabular form. In the first line of each of these 

 smaller tables I take the skulls from Otago and Canterbury — • 

 Ngaitahu — then come the three groups of North Island skulls, 

 while the last line gives the combined result of the entire 

 series. Each line gives the average of the indices or measure- 

 ments — (1) of the male skulls, (2) of the female skulls, (3) 

 of those of doubtful sex, and (4) the general average of both 

 sexes, with the extremes between which the individual skulls 

 have varied. In each case the number of skulls on whose 

 measurements the average is based is given. None but adult 

 skulls are included in these tables of averages. 



Cranial Capacity, 



The average male index of the Ngaitahu skull is therefore 

 mesocephalic, but almost at the upper limit of the group. The 

 average of both sexes is of course much lower, but it is still 

 mesocephalic. The range of variation for male skulls is 

 517c. c. Ten of the twenty-three male skulls, or 43 per cent., 

 are megacephalic ; eleven, or 47-8 per cent., are mesocephalic; 

 two, or 8- 7 per cent., are microcephalic. Of the North Island 

 skulls, those which give the highest average are from tlie 

 south-west coast, all the males being megacephalic. Those 

 from the east coast have an average and a range of variation 

 closely resembling the Ngaitahu skulls. Taking the com- 

 bined results for both Islands, we find that the average of the 

 forty -five male skulls whose internal capacity could be 

 measured places them in the megacephalic division. Twenty- 



