1128 General Notes. [ November, 
the first. Its fragmentary condition, the entire occipital bone and 
parts of the parietal bones being wanting, prevents most of the 
usual measurements being taken; but though a smaller and nar- 
rower skull than the first mentioned, its cephalic index would, 
doubtless, place it in the same range, viz., that of the mesati- 
cephali. It is, however, most interesting in presenting the unu- 
sual feature of having two perforations. The smaller of these, 
less than 0.4 of an inch in diameter, is situated on the sagittal 
suture, and about 0.1 of an inch back of its junction with the 
-coronal suture. The second perforation is over 0.4 of an inch in 
diameter, and is placed on the frontal bone, in a straight line with 
the direction of the sagittal suture and 0.35 of an inch from its 
junction with the coronal suture. The perforations from center 
to center are 0.8 of an inch apart. 
n my examination of these specimens I have made the impor- 
tant discovery that the perforations in both of them are counter- 
sunk, or made from both sides—from the inside as well as the 
outside of the skull. The beveled edges unquestionably settle 
this point, and are a further confirmation, if any such were 
required, as to the perforations being post mortem. This is a point 
overlooked by me in my previous studies, and, indeed, doubtless 
is wanting in the perfect crania, where the perforations could not 
well have been made except from the outside of the bone. 
These two specimens present many of the characteristics ob- 
served by me in other crania I have taken from our mounds. In 
Í-  PiILLING’S BIBLIOGRAPHY. — The most valuable work as yet 
issued by the Bureau of Ethnology is a volume bearing the fol- 
ng title: Proof sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of 
merican Indians. By James Constantine Pilling, (Dis- 
