876 The American Naturalist. [September, 
flying off with branches with apples attached in their bills. The ex- 
citement among them seemed intense, the discovery of such an abun- 
dant and new food-supply apparently much agitating the parrot world. 
As the change of habit may be permanent, Mr. Evans thought a record 
of the date of the change worth making. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. 
Another Ancient Human Jaw of the Naulette Type.—In 
the Pyrenean cave of Estelas (department of Ariége, Commune of Caz- 
aret, near St-Girons), associated with cave bear, horse, an ox, Cervus 
elaphus, and Ursus arctos, an interesting lower human maxillary has 
been recently found. This presented to the Academy of Sciences of 
Paris (see Revue Scientifique, 27th of July, 1895) by M.M. Louis Roule 
and Felix Regnault should cause considerable comment in view of the re- 
cent European diseussion for and against the so-called ancient types of 
human skulls. While late observation in craniology has seemed to 
undermine the value of cubical measurements of brain contents as tests 
of age, the peculiar jaw traits of certain old skulls have apparently 
held their significance. This complete child’s jaw is said to present 
manifest characters of inferiority, together with a strength and adapta- 
bility for muscular insertion remarkable for so young an individual. 
Moreover it has a striking resemblance to the celebrated jaw of Nau- 
lette and to that of Malarnaud (Ariége). 
Sandals in Yucatan.—I asked the Bishop of Yucatan the ques- 
tion propounded by Mr. Otis T. Mason in Science for August 2d, 1895. 
whether the sandal now in common use among the Mayas, strapped 
across the instep and fastened further by a single round thong between 
the first and second toes, was an inheritance from pre-Spanish times. 
He was unable to answer the question more particularly than to show 
me from his collection, the foot of an earthen statue from Izamal, 
moulded with a sandal fastened by two toe thongs instead of one. 
These passed between the first and second, and third and fourth toes. 
to reach astrap on the instep. I question whether the existing san- 
