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index of 61.6 (51.2-71.6),^ and Bell, on 79 Patagonian tibiae, obtained 

 the index of 63.8. A number of the individual San Xavier tibiae show 

 measurements and indices that are very close to those of the Miramar 

 tibiffi. Thus, No. 264157-» = 3.95 by 2.65, ind. 67.1; V = 3.8 by 2.6, 

 ind. 68.4; 'g = 4:.0 by 2.7, ind. 67.5; and 'n = 3.7 by 2.65, ind. 71.6. 

 These resemblances, as those in the measurements of the femora and 

 other bones, do not indicate that the Miramar skeleton is that of a 

 Patagonian, but they show forcibly that it is the skeleton of an 

 individual related in many ways to the principal modern native type 

 of eastern Argentina. 



The fibulae, of medium masculine development, are very defective. 

 The shaft shows shape of type No. 4 (quadrilateral). 



The humeri are of moderate masculine strength. The upper and 

 lower extremities are wanting and the length of the bones can not be 

 determined. The deltoid tuberosities are well-developed. Shape 

 of shaft, nearly plano-convex. 



Measurements at middle : 



Diameter maximum (antero-posterior) : cm. 



Right 2.45 



Left, about 2. 3 



Diameter minimum (lateral): 



Right 1.75 



Left 1.7 



A portion of an ulna shows a fracture below the middle of the shaft. 

 Fragments of the radii present no special features. 



On the whole, the bones of the skeleton other than the skull are in 

 poor condition, worn and defective, and not very satisfactory for 

 detailed examination. They all indicate, however, an individual of 

 male sex and present no features which would make it possible to 

 reach any other conclusion than that they represent the relatively 

 modern aborigines of the region. It seems safe to say that had the 

 Miramar skull and other bones been compared originally with suf- 

 ficient skeletal material from eastern Argentina, they would occupy 

 a much more modest place in anthropologic literature than, in absence 

 of such comparison, has been assigned them. 



Skeletal Remains Relating to Homo Pamp^us, from Neighborhood op 



Necochea 



history and reports 



These remains come from a place in the barren soil of the irregular 

 stretch of country a short distance to the right of the new road leading 

 from Necochea to the coast, and about as far inland from the large 

 hotel built on the shore. The human bones lay on or near the surface, 

 some of them exposed by the wheels of the wagons which passed 



1 Bello y Rodriguez, S., Lef^mur et le tibia, etc., Paris, 1909, pp. 107-109. 



