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Mongolian type of feature, with broad and prominent 

 cheek-bones, a pointed chin, a scanty mustache, no 

 whiskers, and a scanty straggling beard. Of nine skulls 

 which he obtained, he says : " On a cursory view of these 

 there is nothing remarkable among any of them ; they are 

 somewhat small and light, and whilst the female skulls are 

 uniform in contour (i.e., I presume, dolichous, and oval or 

 elliptic in the norma verticalis), the males have a great 

 parietal width ". Two of the female crania, which he pre- 

 sented to Barnard Davis, 1 are now in the museum of the 

 College of Surgeons ; they are small and dolichous (cranial 

 index, 70*9), and the zygomata are by no means wide. 

 In fact it was clearly on the facial aspect and the scanty 

 development of hair that Shortt founded any ideas he may 

 have had of the Mongolian affinities of these outcasts, and 

 these he was unable to put to the test of measurement, 

 which, indeed, at that date had hardly begun to be applied 

 to the face by anthropologists. Width of the cheek-bones 

 is not necessarily accompanied by width of the zygomata, 

 and is, of course, characteristic of other races besides those 

 which we style Mongoloid or Turanian. It is very general 

 among negros and negroids ; and in relation to the breadth 

 of the head even that of the zygoma is almost as often 

 great in the black as in the yellow races. 



But Huxley soon brought the search-light of his keen 

 observation to bear upon the people of Southern India, 

 with the result that he detected the resemblance existing 

 between them and the Australians, with whose type he 

 was familiar. The small long head, the deep nasal notch, 

 the broad nose, the dark skin, the black wavy hair were 

 characters which warranted him in denominating the 

 Dravidians Australioids. 



Strangely enough, very little has been done in 

 Southern India since Shortt's time, in the way of extra 

 observations ; but in East Central India the Kolarian 

 tribes have been a good deal studied. The linguistic 

 separation between Kolarians and Dravidians was sup- 



1 Thesaurus Craniorum, vol. i., p. 157. 



