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cent were mesaticephalic up to 80; 8.2 per cent subbrachy cephalic up 

 to 83.3; and 2.7 per cent brachy cephalic above 83.3; minimum, 65; 

 maximum, 85. 



The Kabyle skull (pi. 8) in the geological collection of the college 

 at Algiers, the fine photograph of which I owe to the kindness of 

 Profs. Fischer and Savornin, has an index at 76.6, and is as well 

 formed as the heads of most of the Kabyles. 



On the whole these people make the same impression as the southern 

 Europeans and might readily be regarded as Spaniards or southern 

 Italians if they were correspondingly dressed. 



But besides these black-haired and brown-eyed people there are 

 also many blond persons with blue eyes who make the exact impres- 

 sion of European northerners. Occasionally the color of the hair 

 is rather reddish. 



Prengrueber found the hair in 3.34 per cent light brown, 1.67 per 

 cent very light brown, 5.20 per cent blond, 1 per cent ashy blond, 2.23 

 per cent more white (13.44 per cent) ; while the eyes in 3.85 per cent 

 blue, only with blond or slightly red hair ; 8.35 per cent light green, 

 with blond or black or light brown hair. 



Divergent are the data of Faidherbe, 1 who observed in Constantine 

 10 per cent blond Kabyles, and of Maciver and Wilkin, 2 who in the 

 Aures likewise noted 10 per cent, while Tissot, 3 who was for a long 

 time French ambassador in Morocco, estimated the number of blonds 

 among the Kabyles of the Eif, of Tangier, and Tetouan at at least 

 one-third of the population, and Quedenfeld 4 even at two-fifths. 

 On the other hand, according to Rohlfs and Quedenfeld no blonds 

 occur south of Morocco among the Shloh. 



These blond Kabyles so much resemble our northern Europeans 

 that according to Quedenfeld they would be simply taken for north 

 Germans, or according to Maciver and Wilken for Scotchmen if they 

 dressed the same. 



Black individuals, genuine negroes, are rare, but mulattoes, prog- 

 nathic and with gross faces, which indicate an admixture of negro 

 blood, are frequent. 



Persons with somewhat curved nose are often met with, so that 

 many children and adults remind one of the Jewish type. 



The women are distinguished for their beauty (pi. 11, fig. 1). As 

 they do not veil their faces nor wrap their forms, as the Arab women 

 do. one has opportunity to admire them in their entire beauty. They 

 are slender and of medium height. The hair is not cut and is worn 

 rather loosely. Large, bony figures are seen only among the negresses, 

 who live among them as servants, or, though rarely, as wives. 



1 After Reclus, Nouvelle Ge*ographie Universelle, 1886, xi, p. 380ff. 



2 Libyan Notes, I. c, p. 97. 



3 Revue d'Anthropologie, 1876, p. 390. 



< Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, 1888, p. 115ff. 



