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almost vertical. The glabella and supra-orbital ridges were feeble. The nasal bridge 

 was concave, depressed above and slightly projecting below ; the anterior nares were 

 wide, and the nasal index was distinctly platyrhine. The nasal spine of the superior 

 maxillse was moderate, and an imperfect ridge separated the incisive region from the 

 floor of the nose. The absence of the lower jaw prevented the proportions of the entire 

 face from being taken, but the upper face was leptoprosopic. Some small Wormian 

 bones were in the lambdoidal suture, and there was a large left epipteric bone. The 

 prognathism of the upper jaw was well marked ; the breadth of the orbit was materially 

 greater than the height, and the index was microseme. The combination of the most 

 important of these characters caused the skull to differ from the type described in Part 

 I., so that it does not possess the customary features of a Burmese skull. 



The two skulls obtained from an old cemetery in upper Burma also differed 

 materially in character from the brachycephalic crania sent to me from the Insein 

 jail. They were both distinctly dolichocephalic both in form and measurements, and 

 in each specimen the height exceeded the breadth. In this respect they corresponded 

 with the skull 159 above described in the collection of the Henderson Trust. They did 

 not, however, possess the prognathic condition of the upper jaw, which was a feature 

 in that specimen. Although the nasal bones were not projecting, the proportions of 

 the nose were not platyrhine. As the two dimensions of the orbit were more nearly 

 on an equality, the orbital index was higher than in 159. The breadth of the palato- 

 maxillary arch, in relation to the length, was not so great. In the male skull there was 

 a small inter-parietal bone, and in the female, Wormian bones were in the lambdoidal 

 suture. In one pterion in the female the ali-sphenoid had a very slight articulation with 

 the parietal, in the other they were separated by a process continuous with the squamous 

 temporal. 



It is obvious that a certain admixture with the brachycephalic Burmese of a race or 

 races with dolichocephalic proportions of the skull is to be found in Burma. It is 

 possible that they may be the descendants of the aboriginal people, or be those of 

 persons, or the descendants of persons, who had migrated into Burma from the hill dis- 

 tricts at present inhabited by a dolichocephalic race. 



One of the skulls from Insein, marked Erinia, was from Ralum, Akyab, in the 

 northern part of Burma, south of Chittagong, where the people are for the most part 

 Mahommedans. It was that of a man, said to be seventy years of age, whose height 

 was 5 ft. 6 in. The condition of the sutures and the state of the teeth proved it to be 

 that of a person who had passed middle life. The skull was hyper-brachycephalic, with 

 a vertical parieto-occipital region, which pointed to artificial flattening during infancy. 

 The height of the cranium was considerably less than the breadth. The skull vrafi 

 cryptozygous. The glabella and supra-orbital ridges were well marked, and the fore- 

 head sloped gently backwards and upwards. The nasal bridge was moderate in length, 

 slightly concave, and somewhat depressed at the root ; the nasal index was platyrhine. 

 The upper jaw was not prognathous, the incisive region was short, but separated from 



