﻿PART 
  I. 
  

  

  THE 
  COLLECTIONS 
  FROM 
  MELANESIA. 
  

  

  MAMMALIA. 
  

  

  BY 
  

  

  OLDFIELD 
  THOMAS. 
  

  

  The 
  Mammalia 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Coppinger 
  are 
  too 
  few 
  in 
  number 
  

   and 
  of 
  too 
  common 
  occurrence 
  to 
  be 
  deserving 
  of 
  special 
  notice; 
  but 
  

   a 
  very 
  interesting 
  series 
  of 
  Melanesian 
  skulls 
  was 
  obtained 
  by 
  him 
  

   from 
  various 
  islands 
  in 
  the 
  Pacific, 
  and 
  of 
  these 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  

   measurements 
  are 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  notes. 
  

  

  1. 
  Skull 
  of 
  Torres-Straits 
  Islander. 
  (Plates 
  I. 
  & 
  II. 
  fig. 
  A.) 
  

  

  Male. 
  Adult. 
  

  

  " 
  Native 
  chief 
  of 
  Nagheer 
  Island, 
  Torres 
  Straits." 
  — 
  R. 
  W. 
  C. 
  

  

  Length^ 
  174; 
  gl. 
  occ.^ 
  181. 
  Breadth^ 
  144. 
  Height* 
  136. 
  

   Maximum 
  frontal 
  breadth* 
  115 
  ; 
  minimum 
  frontal 
  breadth^ 
  

   99. 
  Horizontal 
  circumferences 
  — 
  preauricular^ 
  237, 
  totaP 
  514. 
  

   Transverse 
  arcs 
  — 
  frontaP 
  286, 
  bregmatic^" 
  303, 
  parietal" 
  323, 
  

   occipitaP^ 
  273. 
  Longitudinal 
  arcs 
  — 
  frontaP^ 
  121, 
  parietaP* 
  

   129, 
  occipitaP* 
  113. 
  Foramen 
  magnum 
  — 
  length^^ 
  35, 
  width''' 
  

   29. 
  Basinasal 
  length'^ 
  105. 
  Basialveolar 
  length'^ 
  112. 
  Bi- 
  

   zygomatic 
  breadth"" 
  136. 
  Height 
  of 
  — 
  face-' 
  98, 
  malar'"^ 
  25, 
  

   alveolus'^ 
  22. 
  Auriculo-orbital 
  length"* 
  72. 
  Nasal 
  height^' 
  

   50, 
  width'^ 
  24. 
  Maxilla— 
  length''^ 
  65, 
  width'^ 
  67. 
  

  

  Mandible 
  — 
  bicondylar 
  width"^ 
  126, 
  bigoniac 
  width^" 
  99, 
  symphy- 
  

   siul 
  height^' 
  33, 
  molar 
  height^'^ 
  29, 
  coronoid 
  height^^ 
  63, 
  gonio- 
  

   symphysial 
  length 
  (1. 
  sidef* 
  81. 
  Ptamus 
  — 
  height^^ 
  71, 
  antero- 
  

   posterior 
  breadth^" 
  35. 
  Bigoniac 
  arc''' 
  194. 
  

  

  Indices— 
  latitudinaP* 
  82-8, 
  altitudinaP^ 
  78-2, 
  frontaP" 
  687, 
  

   gnathic" 
  106*7, 
  nasaP" 
  48-0. 
  

  

  1 
  9-12 
  la 
  19 
  27 
  28 
  33 
  3^ 
  39 
  ^^^^^ 
  accordiiig 
  to 
  Flower, 
  Journ. 
  Aiitlirop. 
  Inst, 
  x 
  

   p 
  172(1881), 
  and 
  Cat. 
  Coll. 
  Surg. 
  i. 
  p. 
  xvii 
  (1879). 
  

   ^ 
  2-y 
  13-17 
  20-26 
  29-32 
  31-37 
  4n-42_ 
  Bfoca, 
  Iii.stru'-t. 
  CrAniol. 
  (Paris, 
  187.^). 
  

  

  