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producing numerous peoples who are unclassified, not for 

 ignorance of their anthropological constitution, but because 

 of the impossibility of assigning to them any single colloca- 

 tion. Thus there are certain Kurdish tribes who do not 

 show the dolichomorphic type, but the brachymorphic : 

 such are specially the Curds of Transcaucasia in Russian 

 Armenia. 1 The contrast repeats itself also among the 

 Yesidi of Mesopotamia, who according to Goroscht- 

 schewski 2 are mesaticephalous, while von Luschan has seen 

 other settlements of those resembling the Kyzilbash of the 

 northern Mesopotamia, who are hyper-brachycephalous. 

 The fact stands that the Curds measured by Pittard are 

 quite different from those, of von Luschan, being strongly 

 brachycephalic and never having fine hair and light blue 

 eyes ; Pittard also writes about them : ' For us the true 

 Kurds and the true Armenians appear to be of the same 

 ethnic group," 3 that is to say, the group of the brachy- 

 cephals of high stature. Evidently tbese are not the 

 true Curds for von Luschan, and it is difficult to say why 

 they must be " the true " ones : we are rather inclined to 

 hold that the true ones, that is, the original people who 

 came down from the north are the dolichocephals, who 

 'are also less pigmented. 



To the Armenians and brachycephalic Curds Pittard 

 adds the Lasi, of the South-eastern littoral of the Black 

 Sea, who according to his opinion must be put outside 



1 This may be due to their intercrossing with the Armenians and also to 

 cranial deformation : Chanfcre had occasion to measu.o 12 Cnrds in the environs of 

 Erivan, and he says that 8 of them having a cranial deformation gave 84'62 as ceph. 

 index, while four non-deformed gave only 81'6 (Recherches anthropologiques sur le 

 Cnncase. T. IV. cit, p. 262). 



2 Cf. IVANOVSKY (A. A.), Die Jesiden, "Arch. f. Anthrop. N.F." IV, 1902, p. 609 

 (recension). 



: * PlTiARD(E ), Anthropologie de la Roumanie. Contribution a Vttude anthropolo- 

 tjique des populations sporadiqucs de la Dobrodia : Les Arm3nien*. "Bull. Soc. Ronm. 

 des Sciences," XXI, n. 5, p. 366, Bucharest, 1912. 



