l 
1885.] Notes on the Labrador Eskimo, etc. 471 
covered. The resemblance to the brain of the opossum is well 
18.—Achenodon robustus Osborn, aoe one-fourth nat. size, from the peste, da 
bed of the Washakie basin, Wyoming. Fig. 4, maxillary bone with teeth fro 
low. From Osborn, Bulletin No. 3, E. M. Mus. Princeton College. 
marked. In <Achenodon robustus the orbit is small, indicating 
comparatively imperfect powers of vision (Fig. 1 
10: 
NOTES ON THE LABRADOR ESKIMO AND THEIR 
FORMER RANGE SOUTHWARD. 
BY A. S. PACKARD, 
r is not my purpose to give an account of the Labrador Es- 
kimo, but simply to put together what I have found in relation 
to them in works referring to Labrador, and to add a few notes 
made during two summers spent on that coast in 1860 and 
1864. Although I was aware that the Eskimo formerly lived 
as far south as the southern entrance to the Straits of Belle 
Isle, where I saw two individuals in 1860, one said to be a fuil- 
d Eskimo woman, I regarded them as stragglers from 
the north. It now seems more probable, from the Rev. Mr- 
Carpenter’s statement, to be hereafter given, and from the fact, 
to be hereafter stated, that several hundred Eskimos lived at 
