Very dark (_Races of Man, &c._, p. 9).

Semang

Dark chocolate brown, approximating to black. (_Ibid._).

Aetas

Dark sooty brown (_Ibid._).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs

Brown (Rawling, _Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).

Mafulu

Dark sooty brown.

_Texture of Hair._

This is frizzly in all cases, as with other negroids, the word "woolly"
often used being, I imagine, intended to imply frizzly.

_Colour of Hair._

This being a point which seems to me to be rather interesting,
I propose to quote various descriptions.

Andamanese

Varies from sooty black to dark brown, old gold, red and light
brown; and, though these may be the colours of individual hairs,
the general appearance is sooty black or yellowish-brown.
Portman (_History of our Relations with the Andamanese_, p. 30).

Varies between black, greyish-black and sooty, the last perhaps
predominating.
Man (_The Andaman Islanders_, p. II).

Black, with a reddish tinge.
Haddon (_Races of Man, &c._, p. 9).

Semang

Brownish-black, not a bluish-black like that of the Malays.
Skeat and Blagden (_Pagan Races, &c.,_ p. 46).

Brownish-black.
Haddon (_Races of Man, &c.,_ p. 9).

Aetas

Brown-black, shining.
Semper (_Journal of Anthropology_ for October, 1870, p. 135).

Rich dark brown.
Writer of article on Semper's work (_Id_.).

Varying from a dark seal-brown to black.
Meyer (_Journal of Anthropological Institute_, vol. 25, p. 174).

Dirty black colour, in some instances _sun-burned at top to_
a reddish-brown. [The italics are mine.]
Reed (_Negritos of Zambales_, p. 35).

Black, sometimes tinged with red.
Haddon (_Races of Man_, &c., P. 9).

Dutch New Guinea dwarfs.

Black.
Rawling (_Geographical Journal_, vol. 38, p. 245).

The hair of some of the pygmies was decidedly _dark_ brown.
Statement made to me by Mr. Walter Goodfellow.

Hair of 3 men (out of 24) distinctly not black, a sort of dirty
rusty brown or rusty black colour; all others black-haired.
Extract supplied to me by Dr. Wollaston from his Diary.

Mafulu.

Generally dark brown, often quite dark, approaching to black,
and sometimes perhaps quite black. But frequently lighter, and
often not what we in Europe should call dark.

I think that the above tables indicate that, though there are
differences, ther