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rYr;:\rTE8 axd pouest neguoes 



to an ordinarv uiuUn'-sizcd negro, bnt wherever this liroad, large-wiuged nose 

 is seen, the individual possessing it either belongs to the Pvgray-Prognathous 

 group bv liirth, or is a member of a superior negro tribe, reverting by 

 atavism to this primitive stock. Another marked feature of the Pygmy- 



Protrnathous negroes is 

 the loaf) upper lipj, a 

 distinctly simian char- 

 acter. The u[)per lip 

 is not largely everted, 

 as in the ordinary negro, 

 nor is the lower lip 

 perha})s quite so much 

 turned outwards, to show 

 its inner mucous surface. 

 The mouth is large and 

 a[ie'-like, the chin weak 

 and receding, the neck 

 is ordinarily short and 

 weak. It has been men- 

 tioned that the hair of 

 tlie liead is of the closely 

 curled Xegro type, but 

 a curious feature in many 

 of these Pygmies (a 

 feature, so far as I am 

 aware, confined to the 

 yellow-skinned type) is 

 the tendency on the part . 

 of the head-hair to be 

 reddish, more especially 

 over the frontal part of 

 the head. In all the 

 red or yellow-skinned 

 tvpes of Pygmies which 

 I have seen, I have never 

 observed head- hair which 

 was absolutely black ; 

 it varies in colour between greyish greenish brown and reddish. This is* 

 illustrated in mv coloured drawiuij of two Pvgmies. 



In the blacker t^^pe of Pygmy the buttocks sometimes attain considerable 

 development and prominence, recalling, in a slight degree, a feature which 

 is pushed to an extraordinary exaggeration in the Hottentot-Bushmen race 



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O.NK WHO Dllil) IX UG.VXDA IN MAKC'H, I900, AND WHOSE 

 SKELETON IS DESCRIBED ON P. 559) 



