1862.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 315 
II. Col. Fytche, Commissioner of the Martaban and Tenasserim 
provinces, Moulmein. 
The skeleton of an Andaman savage, a male of about 35 or perhaps 
10 years of age, who died in the hospital of Moulmein at the time of 
my first visit to that station.* Finding that there was no hope of 
his recovery, I requested Col. Fytche to direct that his bones should 
be prepared for the Society’s museum ; but as I was just leaving at 
the time, I was unable to superintend the preservation of them. I 
regret now to find that the skeleton is very imperfect; too much so, 
in fact, to be set up. Of the vertebral column, the axis and one of 
the lumbar vertebrae are missing, also several of the ribs, and most of 
the small bones of the hands and feet. Of the teeth, the two medial 
and the left lateral upper incisors have been lost, also the first upper 
right prae-molar, the left lower canine and all the lower incisors, 
though one or more of these last may have been lost during life, as 
were the last upper true molars right and left, the alveoli of which 
have quite disappeared. As usual among savage races, the molars 
are ground evenly flat, or very nearly so. The skull is essentially of 
the Indo-Germanic type, very similar to some Hindu skulls, and 
exhibiting no tendency to the negro peculiarities. The parietal 
bones are rather broad and posteriorly flat; and the glabella (or 
inter-orbital space) is somewhat wide. The general character thus 
conforms to my observations of the lining men, as embodied in Col. 
Fytche’s notice of them, J. A. S. XXX, 364, et seg.; and at the 
time of making those remarks, I may observe that I had not seen 
Prof. Owen’s notice of the skeleton of an Andamaner read before the 
British Association in 1861. The left zygoma of the individual had 
been fractured, but the bone had re-united, with a considerable bend 
inward occupying the anterior half of the arch. 
Col. Fytche has also favoured us with the skull of a Rhinoceros, 
shot by Dr. Hook of Tavoy near Tavoy Point, where there is a small 
isolated colony of the species. I refer it to the narrow type of Rir. 
S02TDAICUS. 
(To be continued.) 
typhia, Oriolus melanocephaltts, O. tenuirostris, Dictum crtjentatum, 
Nectarinia asiatica, N. phjenicotis, Carpophaga sylvatica, Tgrtgr tigr- 
einus, T. huhilis, Francolings Phayrei, Turnix OCELIiATUS, Sarcogramma 
ATROGULARis (the Burmese and Malayan type, which 1 procured so high as at 
Akyab, distinguished from the Indian by having the neck largely black all round, 
set off below by a white border), Charadrius philippinus, Gallinago stengra, 
and Sterna javanica. 
* The individual known as * Punch Blair,’ vide J. A. S, XXX , 259. 
