1858.] On the Vayu tribe of the Central Himalaya. 445 



pure isabelline brown without the least trace of ruddiness in the 

 skin or hair. The eye is dark hazel and the hair long, straight, 

 black, ample on the head, scant every where else. 



Vertical view of the head oblate ovoid, rather wider behind than 

 before but not much, and flattish behind. 



Bachycephalic. Facial angle very good, the mouth being only 

 moderately salient and the forehead of good height, forwardness 

 and breadth, but the chin defective. Eye-brows even, scantish. 

 No beard or whisker, and a very small moustache. Eyes small, 

 flush with the cheek, oblique, very wide apart, drooping upper lid 

 bent down at the inner angle. Nose rather short, straight, depressed 

 between the eyes, moderately salient elsewhere, broad at end and 

 having large round nostrils. Mouth moderately salient, the pecu- 

 liar thickening of the upper gum, which chiefly causes the saliency, 

 being not great, and the lips not tumid, only moderately full. Teeth 

 vertically set, strong, white. Chin retiring and small. Zygomoe 

 and cheek bones very salient to the sides and profile flat. Eront 

 view of the face squarish, owing to the large angular jaws which 

 are as salient laterally as the zygomoe. 



Remark. — This young man's physiognomy is distinguished by the 

 full Turanian breadth of head and face. Two others of his race 

 whom I examined — a man of fifty-eight years and another of thirty 

 years — -had not the same breadth nor the same perfectly Kalmac 

 eye. These men measured nearly 5.5.0 and were several shades 

 darker in colour than Pate ; and upon the whole I incline to regard 

 them as more normal samples of the race than Pate. In a word, 

 I think that I have sufficient grounds for concluding that the Vayus 

 are in general somewhat darker and of a less decidedly Mongolic 

 cast of countenance than the Lepchas (for example), from whose 

 perfectly Turanian type, they lean towards the Turkic and Dravidian 

 subtypes, which again approach the Arian, and are seen in the 

 Kiranti tribe of Himalaya more clearly and more frequently than in 

 the Vayu tribe. 



The eider of the two individuals above adverted to, I was enabled 

 to examine rapidly whilst Mr. Scott photographed him. He was 

 5.4.-| in height, moderately fleshy and dark brown. Vertical view 

 of the head oblate. Wider and flat behind, greatest breadth between 



