Scott. — Osteology of the Maori and Moriori. 



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The mean of the height-hreadth indices of the two males is 

 78-7. The same index in the female is 79-9. 



The brim index in the males averages 78-9. In the female 

 it is 81-5. 



The index of the pelvic cavity averages in the males 81-2. 

 In the female it is 70. 



The average male sacral index is 110-9. The female 

 pelvis has a sacrum of an unusually narrow form, with an 

 index of 105-8. 



All three pelves are platypellic. One of the male sacra is 

 platyhieric. The other, with the female, is at the upper 

 limit of the subplatyhieric group. 



Bones of the Limbs (Mobioei). 



I give in Table VI. the measurements and indices, so far as 

 was possible, of the limb-bones of five Moriori skeletons. 

 Three of these are males. Four of the skeletons are fairly 

 complete so far as these bones are concerned, but in the fifth, 

 a female, the right arm and leg have, unfortunately, been 

 lost. 



I have not thought it necessary to give here the averages 

 of the various linear measurements, but I give for what they 

 are worth the mean of the indices calculated from them, with, 

 for purposes of comparison, the corresponding indices as I 

 have found them in the Maoris. The figures in brackets 

 show the number of indices from which the 

 taken. 



average is 



These averages show a very close correspondence between 

 the Morioris and the INIaoris as to the proportionate lengths 

 of the long bones, but the scapulae measured are narrower 

 in my Morioris than the average of the Maori bones. The 

 antero-posterior diameter of the femur at the middle of the 

 shaft has much the same relation to the transverse in both 

 races, and the upper part of the shaft shows the same flatten- 



