More immediately, however, in the neighbourhood of New Guinea, we have the islands of Waigiú and Rawak. These are so thoroughly considered by the French geographers as belonging to the Negrito area, that they are called the _Isles des Papous_. With these, then, the proper Kelænonesian or Negrito area begins. WAIGIÚ AND RAWAK. _Physical appearance._--According to M. Pellion, in Freycinet--Forehead flat, facial angle 75°, mouth large, nose flattened, beard scanty, lower extremities slender. Hair frizzed and spread out. According to MM. Quoi and Gaimard--Face broad, frontal and occipital profile flat, vertex elevated, cheek-bones prominent, temporal bones convex, the coronal suture farming a ridge. Nasal bones broad and flat, and _alæ nasi_ spreading. Frontal and maxillary sinuses largely developed. _Molar portion of the alveolar arch thick._ Transverse diameter of the palate large; anterior palatine foramen large.--_Voyage sur L'Uranie et La Physicienne: Zoologie, par Quoy et Gaimard_. Such are the details. An opinion, however, often gives a better notion than a description; and it is the opinion of the French naturalists that the islanders in question are a hybrid breed between the Papua and Protonesian. This speaks to the intermediate character of the physical appearance. On the other hand, Mr. Earle, admitting both the difference and the likeness, denies that intermixture is the cause of it; the _real and undoubted_ hybrids (which he has seen and describes) being different from the Papuas of the islands. Under either case, however, we have the phænomenon of a transition in form. NEW GUINEA. _Physical appearance of the natives of the north-west extremity, i.e., from Waigiú to Dorey._--1st Variety--Undersized, slender, with oval features, and skin more brown than black, hair elaborately frizzed. [Illustration: Fig. 6.] [Illustration: Fig. 7.] 2nd Variety.--Form squat, faces square and angular, cheek-bones prominent, lips thick, skin rough and black, hair simply tied up. _South-western coast._--Portions of the south-western coast of New Guinea were visited by H.M.S. Fly, in 1842-1846, under Captain Blackwood. The notices of Mr. Jukes upon the natives thus seen are short, and chiefly limited to the points wherein they differed or agreed with the islanders of Torres Straits--a portion of the human species that has been described fully for the first time by that writer. Tall and muscular, with the hair tied back behind, sometimes with the head shaved, the skin dark brown or copper-coloured, with ornaments like the people of Erroob, and without out-riggers to their canoes, or with out-riggers on one side only, they spoke a language different from that of the Torres Straits islanders.