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No instance was found of a well developed baldness of the top of 

 the head ; in 26 of the men (17 per cent) there was more or less of 

 a loss in the front, so that the original height of the forehead could 

 not be determined. In no case, however, did this calvitia reach near 

 to bregma. 



Abnormal hairiness of the body was not noticed in any instance. 



FEATURES OF THE HEAD 



The head was observed to be generally of moderate size. No 

 instance of either artificial or pathological deformation came to 

 notice. In shape it is generally oblong and with either an elliptical, 

 somewhat ovoid, or pentagonal outline of the norma superior. On 

 the whole the head of the average Kharga native is much like that 

 of the ordinary non-negroid Egyptian, and lacks all distinctive negro 

 features. 



The forehead in 86 per cent of the cases was found comparable 

 with the average form in the whites ; in 5 per cent it was high 

 (naturally), in 6 low and in 2 per cent sloping. 



The supraorbital ridges were large in 1 case; they were about as 

 developed as in average white males in ,27 per cent, of a submedium 

 to very small development in 71 per cent, and wholly absent in one of 

 those examined. 



The occiput was in no case especially protruding, the external 

 occipital protuberance or ridges in no case pronounced. 



The ears were found to be generally fairly well formed, lying 

 normally near the head or but moderately abstanding, and both in 

 size and shape quite like those of whites, but unlike the charac- 

 teristic ear of the negro, 1 which only appeared occasionally in the 

 mixed-bloods. The separation of the lobule is occasionally more or 

 less deficient. 



FACIAL FEATURES 



The outline of the face is generally near elliptical or ovoid, with 

 the lower portion occasionally angular. 



The eyes, or more properly eye-slits, were in 97 per cent of the 

 examined horizontal or nearly so, as in Europeans ; in 1 case they 

 were perceptibly oblique with the distal canthi higher, and in 2 cases 

 they were oblique with the distal canthi lower than the proximal. 



The nasion depression was but slight in 12, moderate or medium 



1 See Hrdlicka, A. : Anthropological Investigations on One Thousand White 

 and Colored Children, etc. 8°, New York, 1899. 



