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ing in the mountains of India and Indo-China, and in the Malay Pen- 

 insula. The race is nearly extinct in the Sunda Islands, but it seems 

 to appear again in Timor ; and a head from that island, in the collec- 

 tion of the museum, rej)roduces, apart from some details of the facial 

 bony structure, all the characteristics of the Mincopie heads. An ele- 

 gantly carved skull from Boi-neo, belonging to the Museum of Lyons, 

 also presents the same traits (Fig. 1). 



The detailed examination of twelve skulls from the interior of New 



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Fig. 8. Skuli, of a Negrito op the 

 Philippine Islands. 



Fig. 3. Skctll of a Mincopie of the 

 ANDA3L4N Islands. 



Guinea, Rawak, Boni, the Island of Toud, and Amberbaki, has allowed 

 the authors to recognize in those different points the existence of an 

 intermediate race between the Negritos and the Papuans, which they 

 have, therefore, designated as the Negrito-Papuan race. The skulls 

 of this intermediate type (Fig. 4) are slightly elongated, with their 

 mean index descending to 80-1.5, while the facial index rises to 67"17, 

 and the maxillary prognathism is much more sharply defined than 

 among the Negritos. Some of these heads have been artificially de- 

 formed. 



The Negrito-Papuan race forms, in some respects, a transition be- 

 tween the Negritos proper and the Tasmanians. The description given 

 of the last race, which is now extinct, is based on the study of numerous 

 skulls in the collections of the Museums of Paris, London, Shelton, etc., 

 and other authentic sources of information. The Tasmanians were 

 differentiated from other oceanic negroes by a number of characteris- 

 tics, and the study of their skulls enables us to make of them a special 

 race, remarkably homogeneous, notwithstanding the differences which 

 prevailed in the languages of the several tribes. 



The index of the Tasmanian skull varied from 77-10 among the 

 southern tribes to 76-34 among the northern tribes. Its mean capacity, 

 1,420 centimetres in men's skulls, was notably superior to that of negro 

 skulls in general. It presented a sj^ecial form, a kind of keel-shape, 



