alf.kn: docs of TIIK AMKKUAN AHOKIGIXKS. 



499 



MtMsiimiK'iils <(l' tho Skull 



Greatest length, nccii)ut to median incisor 



(alveolus) 



Greatest length, edge of foramen magnum to 



median incisor 



Median incisor to edge of palate 



" " orbit (anterior edge) 



" " " m- (alveolus) 



Canine " m- " 



Premolars '"^ (alveoli) 



Length of premolar * 



Molars '"= (alveoli) .- 



Width of palate outside //;• 



" " " " p^ [ 



Zygomatic width 



Mastoid width 



Width of occij)ital condyles 



Nasals, length 



Peru: 

 A Ill-oil 



Ul 



55 

 72 

 59 



16 

 16.5 



Ari/.: 



Mursli 



Pass 



?132 



71.5 

 60 

 22 

 16 



39 



16.355 

 Calif. 



138 138 



10.35« 

 Calif. 



123 



68 

 54 

 69 

 59 

 20 



16 

 56 

 42 

 87 

 54 

 30 



121 



68 

 54 



17 



56.5 



39 



85 



53 



31 



41 



In addition to the limb-measurement.s iriven on p. 497, the Arizona 

 mummy gi\es the following:— total length from tip of nose to tip of 

 tail following curve of back, 70o (circa); tail about 195; ulna 120 

 (circa); carpus to end of longest claw 90; ear about 60-70 mm. long 

 including hair; tail 195; femur 10(i icircn); til)ia lUi (circa)- hind 

 foot 122. 



Rcmark-.s. — Although this t\pe of dog seems to have been wide- 

 spread among the aborigines of southern North America and north- 

 eastern South America, it appears to ha\e quite disappearerl and is 

 not clearly identifiable in any of the accounts of the early writers. 

 Mr. Guernsey's discovery of a well-preserved mummy in a burial of 

 considerable age in Arizona, has confirmed my previous identification 

 of the Virginia bones of Pachycyon with those of Nehring's short- 

 limbed dog-mummy of Ancon. The cranium is characterized by its 

 breadth and stoutness, its shortened snout and high forehead, gently 

 convex dorsal profile of the brain-case, and the small teeth (upper 

 carnassial 16-17 mm.). The Calif ornian crania agree substantially 

 in every detail. Probably this is the same dog that Moore (1907, 

 p. 423) discoxered in Indian mounds on Crystal River, west Florida, 

 of which Lucas observed, " the front of cranium of carnivore and jaws, 



