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. No instance was found of a well developed baldness of the top of 
the head; in 26 of the men (17 per cent) there was more or less of 
a loss in the front, so that the original height of the forehead could 
not be determined. In no case, however, did this calvitia reach near 
to bregma. 
Abnormal hairiness of the body was not noticed in any instance. 
FEATURES OF THE HEAD 
The head was observed to be generally of moderate size. No 
instance of either artificial or pathological deformation came to 
notice. In shape it is generally oblong and with either an elliptical, 
somewhat ovoid, or pentagonal outline of the norma superior. On 
the whole the head of the average Kharga native is much like that 
of the ordinary non-negroid Egyptian, and lacks all distinctive negro 
features. 
The forehead in 86 per cent of the cases was found comparable 
with the average form in the whites ; in 5 per cent it was high 
(naturally), in 6 low and in 2 per cent sloping. 
The supraorbital ridges were large in I case; they were about as 
developed as in average white males in .27 per cent, of a submedium 
to very small development in 71 per cent, and wholly absent in one of 
those examined. 
The occiput was in no case especially protruding, the external 
occipital protuberance or ridges in no case pronounced. 
The ears were found to be generally fairly well formed, lying 
normally near the head or but moderately abstanding, and both in 
size and shape quite like those of whites, but unlike the charac- 
teristic ear of the negro, 1 which only appeared occasionally in the 
mixed-bloods. The separation of the lobule is occasionally more or 
less deficient. 
FACIAL FEATURES 
The outline of the face is generally near elliptical or ovoid, with 
the lower portion occasionally angular. 
The eyes, or more properly eye-slits, were in 97 per cent of the 
examined horizontal or nearly so, as in Europeans ; in I case they 
were perceptibly oblique with the distal canthi higher, and in 2 cases 
they were oblique with the distal canthi lower than the proximal. 
The nasion depression was but slight in 12, moderate or medium 
1 See Hrdlicka, A. : Anthropological Investigations on One Thousand White 
and Colored Children, etc. 8, New York, 1899. 
