888 General Notes. [August, 
house. When the fruit of the bush honeysuckle, Diervilla trifida, 
began to ripen in June, the old birds visited the shrub often and 
ate very freely of the berries and carried a liberal supply to 
their young. During the last four days that the nestlings were 
cenfined at home, a large share of their food furnished by their 
parents consisted of this fruit, and as soon as the young were 
able to fly they were conducted by their parents to the bush and 
for several days honeysuckle fruit formed the greater part of their 
food. 
So tame did these birds become that the whole family would 
occupy the bush for twenty minutes or half an hour at a time and | 
eat fruit until I almost wondered where the little ones could store 
away so much, while the inmates of the house stood or sat in the 
doorway within four or five feet of them. We did not attempt to 
drive them away but much enjoyed their company, and this fam- 
ily of intrepid flycatchers continued to be frugivorous until the 
bush was gleaned, occasionally sandwiching the fruit with insects 
which attempted to pass. ' 
I had observed the same act in previous years, and have since, 
but this was the most persistent fruit-eating of this kind that 
have noticed. , ; 
have repeatedly seen the young birds feed upon the wild soft 
fruits of the pasture before and after leaving the nest,—Llisha 
Slade, Somerset, Mass, 
Bischoff showed that the development of the labia majora 1n g 
constitutes a mark of distinction between man and the apes. < 
the orang only are they found in a rudimental condition. From 
an evolutionary standpoint their presence in man 1s dou 
to the assumption of the erect position, which crowded 
nal genitalia into a narrower space and produced the a 
fold in question. ig 
Blanchard in the Bulletin of the Socété Zodlogique de Frat 
describes the extraordinary development of the nymphe m a 
bushwomen of South Africa, and gives chromolithographs 
them copied from the drawings of Lesueur. oe 
Bischoff has examined the characteristics of the Fuegian * i 
the exter- 
dditional 
rope, and is inclined to think that this is their normal condition" ae 
ate during the colder half of the year, and that in the a per 
countries of Europe this function is often performed at 1 ervals 
of two or three months. of sav- 
He thinks the constant work which oecupies the women : 
11883, p. 34. 
