1862.] Proceedings oftlie Asiatic Society. 345 



II. Col. Fytche, Commissioner of the Martaban and Tenasserim 

 provinces, Moulmein. 



The skeleton of an Andaman savage, a male of about 35 or perhaps 

 40 years of age, who died in the hospital of Moulmein at the time of 

 my first visit to that station.* Finding that there was no hope of 

 his recovery, I requested Col. Fytche to direct that his bones should 

 be prepared for the Society's museum ; but as I was just leaving at 

 the time, I was unable to superintend the preservation of them. I 

 regret now to find that the skeleton is very imperfect ; too much so, 

 in fact, to be set up. Of the vertebral column, the axis and one of 

 the lumbar vertebrae are missing, also several of the ribs, and most of 

 the small bones of the hands and feet. Of the teeth, the two medial 

 and the left lateral upper incisors have been lost, also the first upper 

 right prae-molar, the left lower canine and all the lower incisors, 

 though one or more of these last may have been lost during life, as 

 were the last upper true molars right and left, the alveoli of which 

 have cpiite disappeared. As usual among savage races, the molars 

 are ground evenly flat, or very nearly so. The skull is essentially of 

 the Indo-Germanic type, very similar to some Hindu skulls, and 

 exhibiting no tendency to the negro peculiarities. The parietal 

 bones are rather broad and posteriorly flat ; and the glabella (or 

 inter-orbital space) is somewhat wide. The general character thus 

 conforms to my observations of the living men, as embodied in Col. 

 Fytche's notice of them, J. A. S. XXX, 364, et segf. ; and at the 

 time of making those remarks, I may observe that I had not seen 

 Prof. Owen's notice of the skeleton of an Andamaner read before the 

 British Association in 1861. The left zygoma of the individual had 

 been fractured, but the bone had re-united, with a considerable bend 

 inward occupying the anterior half of the arch. 



Col. Fytche has also favoured us with the skull of a Rhinoceros, 

 shot by Dr. Hook of Tavoy near Tavoy Point, where there is a small 

 isolated colony of the species. I refer it to the narrow type of Eh. 



BCKSTDAICUS. 



(To he continued.) 



TYPHIA, OEIOLUS MELANOCEPHALTTS, O. TENUIEOSTEIS, DlC^UJI CRTTENTATTT31, 

 NeCTABINIA ASIATICA, N. PH.ENICOTIS, Cabpophaga SYLVATICA, Tubtub TIGE- 

 BINUS, T. HUHILIS, J?EANCOLINUS PHAYEEI, TtTENIX OCELLATDS, SakCOGBAMMA 



ATBOGULAEIS (the Burmese and Malayan type, which 1 procured so high as at 

 Akyab, distinguished from the Indian by having the neck largely black all round, 

 set off below by a white border), Chaeadbius Philippines, Gallinago stenuea, 

 and Steena javanica. 

 * The individual known as e Punch Blair,' vide J. A. S. XXX, 259. 



