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the case of many dolichocephals of the I ndo- Afghan type ; 

 but it is not possible for us to make this discrimination in 

 the averages, and as we hold it probable that in reality 

 there is a large proportion of the intermediate type, thus 

 until proved to the contrary we can indicate this fact as 

 another result of convergence by intercrossing, compara- 

 ble to what we have in Tuscany, where the percentage of 

 the dolichocephals and the brachycephals, Alpine type or 

 other, is much reduced thereby. According to our idea, 

 the Indo-Iranian variety should have also the ellipsoid, 

 ovoid and pentagonoid forms as we have in H. Indo- 

 europceus doliohomorphus, but broadened, thus reaching 

 eventually also the initial point of brachycephalism. This 

 broadening of the elongated forms I have always observed 

 in the areas of intense miscegenation between the dolicho- 

 mesaticephals and brachycephals, and I have no difficulty, 

 theoretical or preventive, against such possibility in Persia 

 and in Beluchistan: perhaps it is only an elimination of 

 the extreme forms, which become more rare. 



I do not deny in any way that the Mongolian brachy- 

 cephals came to this part of Asia and that they are still 

 represented there (if there are also so many in European 

 Russia!), but these are easily recognisable by other charac- 

 ters, that is to say, by the characters of H, asiaticuv. 

 As a matter of fact, the Hazaras of Afghanistan, of whom 

 200 gave as stature 1684 mm., ceph. ind. 85'0, nas. ind. 

 80*5, have not only the character of brachycephalism 

 (which in itself is so little Mongolian !), but also that of 

 mesorrhiny, and the lowest orbito-uasal index (ilj/2) 

 among all the population of the so-called (erroneously) 

 Turko-Iranian type 1 ; they have frequently oblique eyes or 

 eyes with the characteristic Mongolian fold, the absence of 

 hairiness and all the other signs of the Mongolian 



1 C/. RISLEY (H. H.), op. ct. p. 395. 



