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F. X l' J, AN A 1' £ 0 N S 0 F 'I'][ T<: '1' A H L }: AU. t\I'C now undergoi ng, I mli·Y quote from LoOAN: "Unlike tho i\Inntawo and Nihn. [described olsowhcro], tho Mt~ruwi-at lot~ st those of Daniak-bavc lost moHt of tho proper Niha-Polynosian hn.bits, o.ncl adopted those of tho Achinoso nut.! J\lt\lt~ys" ( Joumal of the btdian Archipelago, Singapore, I, now series, No. 1, 1866, pp. 8-10). No. 48. - NEGRILLO. ["A Pllputtn or nogro of the Jndlan Islands:"- On~wvunn, Ui8t. of tlte Indian Archipelago, J<;alub., 1820; J, PJ. 1.) Compare ProiO:tUNO (Races, 4to, pp. 170-4, o.nd Pl. VIII) for good descriptions of these varied anu most inferior races. Lollving aside the romance of P. D.l!l LA GmONillull ( Vingt anntfes aux 1'/iil'ip­pinu, Paris, 12mo, 1863), tho best accounts of those "Nogritos, Indions, 'l'agalcs, Disnyns, Igorotes, Duriks, Itapanos, Tinguio.nos, Ouinannos, Yfugnos, Gnt.ldnneH, Ctllauns, Apt~ynos, lbilaos, 11ongotos, hino.yos," t~ro in MAf,LA~: (Lea Philippine•, l'tu·is, 8vo, & Atlas fol., 1846); who, moreover, furnishes t\bundant oxampleH of hybrid·ity in its most oxtraordino.ry combinations. Above a million of tho abo­riginal Ncgrito& n.ro extant o.t tho islands of Luzon nod Mindanao alone. VIII. AUSTRALIAN R"EALM. (Nos. 49, 60, 61, 62, 53, 66, 66.) Among tho more recent authorities consulted-aside from tho voyages of Cook, followed by the whole series of French circumnnvigntors-suoh as Flinders, Angns, .ll'[ont.gomcry Martin, Do Strzelecki, Loichlmrdt, Mitchell, Doeto Jukes, &c.; it is from MAOOlLLlVRAV, novcrtboless (Voyage of H. AI. S. Rattlemake, J,oudon, 8vo. 1862, II, pp. ].-8), that one derives n fact rettlly important onough,-alwo.ys supposing tbo rcttdor to possess some knowledge of tho zoological amid other anomalies of that uuaccountn.blo continent- to be hero roca.llcd. This fact, obscl'Vod by a very competent witness, is, that "'l'ho junction between tho two races, tho Pnpuan from tho north , and tho Australian ft·om tho south, it! effected at Capo York by tho Kowrnrogas, whom I believe to be a Papuan colony of Austra­liaus." Hero tho fusion of those two distinct typos, through o.mnlgnrnation and at their ouly point of contact, is compl<'tc. Five distinct native tribes arc blended, in tho neighbor­hood of this Capo, more or less into n race of hybricls,-thoso further back on tho mainland being pure Au&tra/iun8, and thoso across Torres Strait on the ish~n1ls being pure Papaua& ,· tho cho.ructeristics of both typos becoming contrasted by comparing Nos. 41, 42, with Nos. 4\J, 50, 61. No accounts pretending to identify tho now perhaps extinct Tasmaniana (Nos. 68, 64) with either; or to suppose communication ever existed between tho helpless snvngos of Now South Wales and those of Van Diomon's Ll\ntl; we thus discern at 11 glo.nce thnt Pnpuans, Austro.lians, and Tasmttnit\ns, nrc 11nimo.ls o.s distinct as tho various "species" of kttngnroos found upon tho same continent o.nd island. REFERENCES AND EXPLANATIONS. No. 49.- NORTH AUSTRALIAN. [" Ntm.are ( auvngo doa onvlron• do lu rlviOro Noponn), Nouvollo Uollando :"-DE FnEYOJNr.T, T'o!J. et .Dt!couv. a..., ~n·u Amtralu, "l'Urnnio" (1800-4); Pl. 100, fig. 3.) No. 60. - WEST AUSTRALIAN. [" Ourou Jfart, llabltnnt do Ia Nouvollo Jtollnndo :"- Cuvom, Ri!ont Anima!, Alammifi!ru, PI. 8, llg. 1:- tho original (!\lAO unooloro!l) Ia In t•.tnoN, op. cit. Colored fl'om PJOKtmtNO, Rrrce8, U. S. F.xplor. F.xpod., IX, 1848; Pl. V, pp. 187-8. Compare liAbUL'fON SMt't•u, op. cit., Pl. 17, & p. 460. EXPLANA'l'IONS OF 'l'llE TABLEAU. 637 No. 51. - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN. [" llli/liti<, 11 mnn of lho Illlttnrn trlbo boyond Port Uncoln :" -0. F. ANOAB, South Atl&lralia nita· trale<l, J,ondon, fol., 184; Pl. XVIH.) No. 52.-TASMANIAN. ["Jn~tmy, N"Uvo of tho llumplln Tillis:"- STilZKJ.EOK.t, Pily1. Ducr. of Nrw Scull• Walu and Ya11 Diemcn'• J.an<i, J.ondon, Svo, 1845, p. aaa.j Colored by ucscriptions. No. 53.- TASMANIANS, Man and Woman. ["IndlgOnos des uoux soxoa (Van Dlomon) :"- D'URVlLJ.E, op. cit. "Aetrolnbe," Pl. lfi3; Y, p. 101 ] Colored from origin o.l in PtitlON, op. cit. Compo.ro Cuvnm, llfMmllijM·e~. and tho Alla8 du Voy. tl la reclterc!te de la Plrotm, Nos. 7, 8. Sec other examples in Captain CooK's Voyages, oquo.lly di sagroonblo. In the parallel line of our 1'ubleau is a skull fr·oro the l\lortoninn collection upon which Dr. Meigs bas enlarged (Chapter Ill, .Fig. 78). I was with tho In te Dr. MowroN when he received this specimen, tmd saw him note in his l\IS. Catalogue (I llu ed., 1849, No. 1827), tho.t this "skull is the nearest appronch to the orang typo that I have soon." More than 20 years previously, Du)ION"r d'UnvnT,J! ("Astrolabe," 182C>-9, -I, p. 408) t.llUS describes, on tho spot, tho hideousness of these, uow nll hut extinct, typos of m1\ukind :-" Plusiours ont les mi'Lchoires trcs-pt·o6minoutcs, et l'un cl'cux, nomm6 le vicux Wirang, e(H fort bien pu pnssot· pour uu Orang­outan g." I believe that our ETHNOGRAPHIC TABLEAU estahliAhes what Baron do Humboldt has so eloquently deprecated -and Count de Oobiueau so strongly i:nsi.sts upon-viz.: the existence of supe1·ior and inferior races. In those last two specimens of Nature's handicraft upon Prof. Owen's "sole repr sontative of his [man's J order," we have reached 1 he lowest. But, i.ttasmuch as within the "Australian Realm," amidst other ;;~oological anomalies, the Ora~tg-utan has never .cx iste~, I pt·oc:e~, in my final secLion, to exam111o where some of the htghost st~1u.e and some inferior types of the c' genus homo" may happen to find themselves in geographical coutact.