PART I. 



THE COLLECTIONS FEOM MELANESIA. 



MAMMALIA. 



Br 

 OLDFIELD THOMAS. 



The Mammalia collected by Dr. Coppinger are too feW in number 

 and of too common occurrence to be deserving of special notice; but 

 a very interesting series of Melanesian skulls was obtained by Mm 

 from various islands in the Pacific, and of these the most important 

 measurements are given in the following notes. 



1. Skull of Torres-Straits Islander. (Plates I. & II. fig. A.) 



Male. Adult. , 



" Native chief of Nagheer Island, Torres Straits."— iJ. W. C. 



Length' 174; gl. occ.'' 181. Breadth^ 144. Height^ 136. 

 Maximum frontal breadth' 115 ; minimum frontal breadth" 

 99. Horizontal circumferences — preauricular' 237, totaP 514. 

 Transverse arcs— frontal* 286, bregmatic" 303, parietal" 323, 

 occipital" 273. Longitudinal arcs — frontal" 121, parietal" 

 129, occipital" 113. Foramen magnum — ^length" 35, width" 

 29. Basinasal length'^ 105. Basialveolar length" 112. Bi- 

 zygomatic breadth^" 136. Height of — face''' 98, malar"" 25, 

 alveolus=^ 22. Auriculo-orbital length^ 72. Nasal height" 

 50, width"= 24. MaxiUar— length'' 65, width"^ 67. 



Mandible — bicondylar width"' 126, bigoniac width'" 99, symphy- 

 sial height^' 33, molar height^" 29, coronoid height^' 63, gonio- 

 symphysial length (1. side)''' 81^ Eamus — ^height'' 71, antero- 

 posterior breadth'" 35. Bigoniac arc'' 194. 



Indices— latitudinaP' 82-8, altitudinal^' 78-2, frontal* 68-7, 

 gnathic^' 106-7, nasal*" 48-0. 



1 B_« v 19 sr 28 33 38 89 tajjgu aocording to Flower, Journ.Anthrop. Inst, x 

 p 172(1881), and Oat. CoU. Surg. i. p. xvii (1879). 

 •^ j_8 l^-l7 iO-is *8-.3a 34_3T 40-42^ Brooa, Instruct. Oraniol. (Paris, 1875). 



