HRDLICKA] SKELETAL REMAINS 387 
The Burlington County skull (no. 19513, Peabody Museum) is 
that of a female, fully adult but not of advanced age. This skull 
is symmetrical and not deformed or diseased. (Plate m1.) The bones 
are thin, but of considerable hardness. A slight warping causes a 
partial opening of the right coronal and temporo-sphenoidal sutures. 
The bones apparently retain some animal matter. Their surface has 
suffered a considerable scaling off, but as yet the diploé is not visible. 
The facial parts are much damaged, the superior maxilla being 
almost entirely absent. The mastoids are broken, and the bone above 
them, particularly on the left side, shows numerous perforations; 
there is, however, no indication that these latter are the result of 
disease. The lower part of the occiput is damaged, and the sphenoid 
body is broken across in front of the basi-sphenoid articulation, but 
these injuries have not affected the form of the skull. There is no 
unnatural depression of the region about the foramen magnum. 
The right squama shows a small perforation, probably a recent 
injury; the bone exposed is scaly almost throughout. There are no 
scratches now visible on the surface of the skull, but such may have 
existed and disappeared with the outermost layer of the bones. 
There are no discolorations with the exception of a peculiar narrow, 
regular band, lighter than the neighboring bone, that obliquely 
encircles the whole cranium. It seems that a narrow firm band, or 
some contrivance provided with such a band, was applied to the head 
or skull and left its impression thereon. There is no metallic dis- 
coloration. 
The skull has very marked peculiarities of form, visible at a glance. 
Tt is unusually low throughout its whole extent; the outlines of its 
planes are rounded, not angular, and the portion of the specimen 
behind a vertical plane passing through the auditory meati is quite 
markedly larger than the portion anterior to the plane. 
Enough of the face is left to show that it was very narrow, and 
the malars, both preserved, are even less prominent than those which 
we find in an average white female skull. The orbits are megaseme, 
their borders quite sharp, their angles rounded; depth 4 cm. The 
nasal bridge, well preserved, is of fair height, slightly concave in its 
upper half, and not very broad. Nasion depression moderate. Gla- 
bella large, of medium convexity. There are no supraorbital ridges 
proper, but an elevation appears on each side of and adjoining the 
glabella. The interorbital septum measures 2.4 cm. (24.6 per cent 
of the line between the orbital ends of the malo-frontal siitures). 
The forehead is very low, though not sloping. Diameter: Frontal 
minimum 9.3, frontal maximum 11.6; nasion-bregma are 11.6 cm. 
(83.2 per cent of the total are from nasion to opisthion). 
The parietals show considerable quite uniform convexity from 
above downward and slightly less so from before backward. The 
