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immigrants than among those left in their native country. The 

 proportion of fair eyes is sHghtly larger among the immigrants 

 than among the Jews in their native countries, but the difference 

 is so small as to be disregarded. 



When compared with the indigenous populations of the 

 countries in Eastern Europe in wdiich these Jews have lived, we 

 find that they everywhere have a larger percentage of individ- 

 uals with dark hair and eyes, and a smaller of fair hair and 

 eyes, excepting in Roumania. Thus in Galicia 75 percent of 

 the Jews have dark hair as against only 54 percent of the Poles 

 and Ruthenians ; in Russian Poland the Poles have 78 percent 

 with dark hair and the Jews 89 percent ; the Little-Russians 

 have 53 percent and their Jew'ish neighbors 78 percent ; even in 

 Lithuania and White-Russia, where the Letto-Lithuanians have 

 only 16 percent and the White-Russians 23 percent of dark-haired 

 individuals, there are St, percent of such dark-pigmented Jews, 

 The only exception is Roumania, where the Jew^s have only 83 

 percent and the Roumanians 92 percent of dark hair. The same 

 is true of dark eyes, the Jews have a comparatively larger num- 

 ber of individuals wuth dark eyes than the indigenous popula- 

 tion of the particular country in Eastern Europe in which they 

 lived for centuries. On the other hand, fair hair and eyes are 

 much more frequent among the non-Jews in these countries 

 than among the Jews. Thus fair hair is found 20 percent 

 among the Galician Jews as against 45 percent among the 

 Gentiles in that country ; 7 percent among the Polish Jews, 

 and 21 among the Poles; in Little Russia, 17 percent among 

 the Jews, and 46 among the Little- Russians ; and in Lithuania, 

 where the indigenous population is blond, the Letto-Lithuanians 

 having 83 percent, and the White-Russians y6 percent of fair- 

 haired individuals. Here the Jews show only 14 percent of 

 such persons. In Roumania, we find an exception, 14.67 per- 

 cent of the Jews had fair hair, as against only 6 percent among 

 the Roumanians. Fair eyes are also more frequent among the 

 non-Jewish populations of Eastern Europe than among the Jews 

 as can be seen from Table XLYI ; even in Lithuania, where the 

 indigenous population has over 80 percent of fair-eyed indi- 



