and Australoid,
likeAustralian, sc. aboriginal – – a term used by ethnologists. See quotations.
1869. J. Lubbock, `Prehistoric Times,' vol. xii. p. 378:
«The Australoid type contains all the inhabitants of Australiaand the native races of the Deccan.»
1878. E. B. Tylor, `Encyclopaedia Britannica,' vol. ii. p. 112:
«He [Professor Huxley] distinguishes four principal types ofmankind, the Australioid, Negroid, Mongoloid, and Xanthochroic,adding a fifth variety, the Melanochroic. The special pointsof the Australioid are a chocolate-brown skin, dark brown orblack eyes, black hair (usually wavy), narrow (dolichocephalic)skull, brow-ridges strongly developed, projecting jaw, coarselips and broad nose. This type is best represented by thenatives of Australia, and next to them by the indigenous tribesof Southern India, the so-called coolies.»