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Linea aspera.—The linea aspera was found to be generally well 
developed, but seldom high and in no case excessively rough, indi- 
cating well but not exceptionally developed musculature. 
Shape of the shaft.—As to the shape of the shaft at middle, in a 
fourth of the males and in nearly half the females this was found to be 
more or less prismatic, and in 9 per cent of the males and 7.5 per cent 
of the females, plano-convex; the remainder of the bones showing, 
with one exception, intermediary or not well-defined shapes. None 
of the femora present the cylindrical (juvenile) type, or type 4 
(anterior surface divided in two by a long vertical ridge), and in but 
one bone is the shape clearly elliptical. Among the whites the last 
named (elliptical) form is much more common, while the plano- 
convex type is less frequent than in the Indians. 
Third trochanter—Respecting the third trochanter, this presents 
itself as a more or less marked ridge, or an oblong tuberosity, or a 
round tuberosity; and in any of these forms it may be slight, medium, 
or pronounced. In some instances there will be found a depression, 
instead of an elevation, in the bone at or near this locality. These 
different forms have no separate morphological significance. They 
all serve for or are due to the attachment of the gluteus maximus 
muscle, and merge into each other by transitional stages. In the 
Munsee, conditions in regard to the third trochanter were as follows: 
L. MUNSEE AND WHITE FEMORA: THIRD TROCHANTER OR GLUTEAL TUBER- 
OSITY 
Ridge Oblong tuberosity | Round tuberosity 
Third Ant 
Subjects |trochanter| 
absent | Moder- Pro- Moder- Pro- Moder- Pro- 
ate | nounced ate nounced ate nounced 
Munsee: Per cent | Per cent | Percent | Percent | Percent | Per cent | Per cent 
Malo ose oes (17) 30 Z0NC Ree eons 75 ee Pee et GYD 2 soe 
Remale® 2... -5.-a2: (14) 32 SOUS Boe soe 22 3.5 3.5 3.5 
Whites: 
Male 37k 45 045- (200) 43 32 4.5 9 5 3.5 3 
Hemale, e222. (120) 45 31 5 12.5 1.7 5) | Sass See 
It is here seen that the third trochanter is strictly absent in less 
than a third of the male as well as of the female bones of the Munsee; 
a small to pronounced oblong tuberosity exists in 26 per cent of the 
males, and practically the same proportion (25.5 per cent) of the fe- 
males, while a rounded tuberosity is found in 6 per cent of the males 
and in 7 per cent of the females. Among the previously reported 
Arkansas and Louisiana Indian femora, the frequency of the third 
trochanter in most of its forms was somewhat greater. Among the 
ordinary Américan whites, it will be observed from the above figures, 
there is in both sexes a more frequent complete absence of the third 
1 Compare Arkansas and Louisiana Femora, op. cit., p. 217. 
