40 Shells as evidence of the Migrations. 
Von Martens refers to the use of shell-trumpets in 
the Philippine Islands, in the island of Halmaheira (or 
Gilolo)*® and by the Alfurs of Ceram.” 
A fine specimen of a trumpet made from a large 
Triton tritonts has recently been shown me by Professor 
S. J. Hickson. It was obtained by him in the Celebes, 
and is perforated on the side of one of the upper whorls, 
It was used by the boatman who carried round the mails, 
and may have originally come up from the south. 
In Papua, or New Guinea, Cassts cornuta, Trtton 
tritonis, and Ranella lampas, are used as trumpets, having 
a hole drilled as a mouthpiece in one of the upper whorls.” 
In addition to the 7yrzton, Moseley “* tells that a large 
conical Strombus, perforated at the apex, not on the side, 
as in Trtton, is used by the natives of Humboldt Bay. 
Among the musical instruments used by the natives of 
the Admiralty Islands are conch-shells perforated on the 
side as usual.” 
The only instrument of the trumpet kind used by the 
Torres Straits Islanders is a giant /usus | /. proboscidiferus, 
Lam.”], or occasionally a large 7yrton. The Fusus is 
universally employed, and, according to Haddon," the 
mouth-hole is always lateral. It was employed for con- 
veying signals, but now at all events is most frequently 
blown when the natives are sailing, especially when going 
fast or racing. 
*® Zetts. fiir Ethnol., iv., 1872, p. 34, fide Schmeltz, ‘‘ Schnecken und 
Muscheln im leben der volker Indonesiens und Oceaniens,” Leiden, 1804. 
‘© Verhand. der Berl, Anthro, Gess., 18938, p. 485. 
‘7 A. H. Cooke, of. ctt., p. 99. 
** Moseley, ** Notes by a Naturalist on H.M.S. ‘Challenger’, 1892, 
p. 378. 
** Moseley, of. cf, p. 407, also Jour, Anthrop. /ust., 6, 1876-7, 
p. 411. 
** Probably Afegalatrachus aruanus (1). 
*? “ Anthrop. Exped. to Torres Straits,’’ Cambridge, iv., 1912, p, 283. 
and fig. 248. 
