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some rare instances shows a changeable greenish 
hue. 
In the remarks accompanying the Report of the 
Anthropometric Committee of the British Associa- 
tion for 1881 and 1883, itis said that green eyes are 
more common than the tables indicate, and that eyes 
that should properly be called green, owing to the 
popular prejudice against that term, have been re- 
corded as grey or some other colour. 
Does any such prejudice exist? or is it neces- 
sary to go about with the open manual in our hands 
to know a green eye when we see one? No doubt 
the “popular prejudice” is supposed to have its 
origin in Shakespeare’s description of jealousy as a 
green-eyed monster; but if Shakespeare has any 
great weight with the popular mind, the prejudice 
ought to be the other way, since he is one of those 
who sing the splendours of the green eye. 
Thus in Romeo and Juliet :-— 
The eagle, madam, 
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye 
As Paris hath. 
The lines are, however, nonsense, as green- 
eyed eagles have no existence; and perhaps the 
question of the popular prejudice is not worth 
arguing about. 
Once only in my long years’ quest after green 
eyes, during which I have sometimes walked miles 
along a crowded thoroughfare seeing the orbs of 
every person that passed me, was [ led to think that 
my reward had come at last. On taking my seat 
