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as observation without actual measurements also points out. The mean 

 length of 7S sterna was 6"81 in. Special measurements were made of the 

 head and other portions of the frame. 



Of the 129 men, not one reached the type or average, which may be 

 regarded as a true one, as the means of separate twenties taken in the order 

 of examination approaches for all measurements the means of the grand 

 totals. This may not be deemed extraordinary when we remember that the 

 very constitution of society requires that there should be a slight differenti- 

 ation from the type. This of course is most noticeable in the expression of 

 the countenance, but it no doubt exists throughout the body, — the type may 

 of course be found amongst a larger number of men. 



The Head. — -The antero -posterior diameter of 129 heads was 7*21 in., the 

 lateral 5 - 66 in., the depth from vertex to chin in eighty-one cases 8"05 in. 

 The ratio of length to breadth was as 100 : 79'22, the true ratio — the means 

 of averages of scores being almost the same. Taking the proportion of 80 to 

 100 as the dividing line, all above being brachy, all below dolicho-cephalic, the 

 Bhil skull is but very slightly dolicho-cephalic, very different from the long 

 thin walled crania of the pure Hindu. Again, as opposed to the latter, the 

 parietal tuberosity is well marked, the occipital hardly at all. The face is 

 orthognathic. A Bhil is generally very dark, his hair black, straight and 

 long, his face smooth with slight moustache, rarely having beard and whis- 

 kers, eyes dark with the palpebral apertures limited in size, making the eye 

 look small. The iris is sometimes grey, as in Gujars and other low caste Hin- 

 dus. Chest, rarely hairy. Face large, wide, almost round. Forehead of fair 

 height, rather more square than amongst Hindus ; vertex of skull, flatter. 

 In some cases, however, (almost exclusively where the men were of mixed 

 race) the roof of the skull seemed to begin in the centre of the forehead, 

 thus rendering the facial angle, measured in the ordinary way, appear large, 

 and not affording a correct indication of cranial capacity. Eyelashes and 

 eyebrows ample, bridge of nose broad and sunk, nostrils dilated very round, 

 nose slightly retrousse, broad, clubbed at the tip, and rather more varied 

 than the dead level organ of the Hindu, which, however well shaped, bears 

 little indication of character. 



Mouth large, lips thick, inexpressive, sensual, giving the impression that 

 they were made merely to cover the teeth, which are large and coarse. Z} r go- 

 ma very large and salient. Cheeks full. Molar bones flat and prominent. 

 Ears large and prominent, and very moveable. Jaws evenly hung, massive, 

 lower square, large in proportion, angles square, large and widely separated. 



Expression amiable, but timid. Long and strange habit, more than 

 inherent race peculiarity, I believe to be responsible for many of the character- 

 istics of the Bhil's head. He has been an outcast for ages, hunted by his 

 neighbours, and so timid has he become, that even when he sees the men of his 

 own tribe, soldiers in the Bhil Corps, passing peaceably through his district, 



