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A NOTE ON ANTHROPOMETRY 
imagined that black beetles were being encouraged rather than 
got rid of, for the sake of the bird. My specimens appear to 
have been brighter than those previously in collections, or there 
is some slight difference, and it has been given the rank of a sub- 
species named Guttera cristata seth-smithi, though the difference 
is, I believe, so slight that it would appear to be a mistake to 
form a sub-species of it until many more specimens have been 
obtained. 
I am afraid that the above is hut little more than a list of 
birds ; but I think it shows that there are a great many birds of 
immense interest in forests, especially when I mention that most 
of these birds were obtained in my spare time during a few days 
I spent in the forest in 1907. 
I am quite sure that if one could spend a year collecting, 
not only skins but notes of nests, eggs, and habits of forest birds, 
a great deal of new and extremely interesting information 
would be obtained, as I believe very little is at present known 
about this most fascinating branch of Ornithology. 
A NOTE ON ANTHROPOMETRY 
By Norman Leys, M.B., B.Ch. 
Anthropometry is the least interesting branch of anthro- 
pology. It has no room for the exercise of imagination and 
no human interest. On the other hand, there is little room 
for fancy or prejudice, and one’s facts, unless indeed one 
cooks them, are final and indisputable. 
In anthropometry measurements of the human body 
are made with the purpose of determining race. Races, 
of course, are popularly determined by other means. We 
tell a man’s race by his language^ his clothes, his religion. 
Unfortunately, investigation shows that these tests are unre- 
liable. Probably, for instance, only a minority of those 
who now speak English are of the English race. Not only 
in Ireland and Scotland, but in French Canada, Dutch South 
Africa, Asiatic India, Cosmopolitan America, our language 
