1875.] Fryer — The Khyeng tribe in Arakan. 97 



of the customs and manners of Khyengs, or Hiou or Shoo, as they call 

 themselves. The second and third parts contain a grammatical analysis 

 of the language of the tribe and a Khyeng-English and an English-Khyeng 

 Dictionary. The article will appear in No. 1 of this year's Journal. 



Mr. Wood-Mason remarked that he was quite prepared to be told that 

 the tribe wbieh formed the subject of his friend Major Fryer's interesting 

 paper were dolichocephalic ; for he himself had measured numerous skulls 

 belonging to various closely-allied mongoloid tribes inhabiting the hill- 

 ranges of our N. E. Frontier, but had not hitherto met with a single instance 

 in which the transverse diameter of a skull exceeded eight-tenths of its 

 length. He had also examined, at the recpiest of Sir George Campbell, the 

 crania of eleven members of the party of Kuki chiefs which had recently 

 visited Calcutta under the charge of Captain Lewis, with the following 

 result : — 



Lushai, male (No. 1) was orthocephalic, his cephalic index being '74 

 „ „ (No. 2) „ subbrachycephalic „ ,, „ 78 



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„ „ (No. 4) „ orthocephalis „ „ „ „ -756 



Rattey „ (No. 5) ,, subbrachycephalic „ ,. „ - 79 



. Lushai „ (No. 6) „ orthocephalic „ „ „ „ *74 



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,, „ (No. 8) „ mecocephalic „ „ „ „ *73 



„ „ (No. 9) ,, orthocephalic „ „ „' „ -74 



„ „ (No. 10) „ mecocephalic „ „ „ „ -72 



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A skull of a female of the same tribe was mecocephalic, „ '71 



Of these eleven males, taken as a whole," it would be seen that no one 

 had a cephalic index so high as *8 ; that three were subbrachycephalic, 

 three mecocephalic, and the remaining five orthocephalic, the degree of 

 long-headedness termed orthocephaly greatly preponderating : in connexion 

 with which it was interesting to note that the mean ceph. index was '74S, 

 or also orthocephalic, and that the only female examined in accordance with 

 the usual rule, was larger headed than the longest headed male. In reply to 

 the author's assertion that in females the extreme transverse diameter of 

 the skull was, in proportion to the length, greater than in males, which was 

 tantamount to saying that males were longer-headed than females, all lie 

 would say was, that whenever any such difference between the sexes had 

 been observed, it had been exactly the reverse of that asserted. In conclu- 

 sion he thanked the author for the most interesting paper that, for a long 

 time, it had been his lot to listen to. 



