4:0 Remarks on M. Bory de St- Vincent's 



the Ostiacks, Tonguses, Jakous, Jukaghires, Thuschis, Ko- 

 riacks, and some hordes of Kamtschadales in the old conti- 

 nent, and the Esquimaux in the new. 



7. Homo Neptuntanus. — This species occupies the eastern 

 coast of Madagascar ; the western shores of the New World 

 from California to Chili; all the southern islands, and some of 

 the Polynesian. They have no well-marked characters, but 

 present varieties very distinct from one another. The races 

 are, the Malays, the Sandwich Islanders, and the Papous. 



What an excellent and well-marked species that amphibious 

 animal a British seaman would have made under this title ! 

 We notice the circumstance, that M. Bory may have it in his 

 view to incorporate this aquatic race, as a species more strong- 

 ly marked than most of those he has mentioned, in his magnum 



opus. 



8. Homo Australasiaticus.-r-Exc\usive\y proper to New 



Holland. 



The following species belong to the American continent : 



9. Homo Colombicus. — Formed of the people inhabiting the 

 territory of the United States, comprising Canada and the 

 Floridas ; Mexico from the eastern chain of the Cordilleras ; 

 all the islands of the Gulf of Mexico ; the Terra Firma and 

 the Guanas. This species, M. Bory adds, with a simplicity 

 truly wonderful, and at once fatal to his distinctions, is almost 

 entirely modified by the Europeans. 



10. Homo Americanus. — This species occupies the interior 

 basin of the Orinoco, the basin of the Amazons, Brazil, Para- 

 guay, and the eastern sides of the mountains of Chili. 



11. Homo Patachonkus. — Inhabiting Patagonia, but pos- 

 sessing no characteristic distinction (according to M. Bory) 

 but their reported size, which is long since known to have been 

 much exaggerated. 



The last four species form the subgenera Oulotriques, or 

 with woolly hair, including the negro races. 



12. Homo JEthiopicus. — Inhabits central Africa, and the 

 west coast of that continent from the river Senegal to St He- 

 lena, and nearly a similar extent upon the opposite coast, viz. 

 between the tropics. 



13. Homo Cafer. — This species is found to the south of the 



