[189] The remarks of the Marquis de Brisay, an authority on doves, as
communicated to Giard (_L'Intermediare des Biologistes_, November 20,
1897), are of much interest on this point, since they correspond to what
we find in the human species: "Two birds from the same nest rarely couple.
Birds coming from the same nest behave as though they regarded coupling as
prohibited, or, rather, they know each other too well, and seem to be
ignorant of their difference in sex, remaining unaffected in their
relations by the changes which make them adults." Westermarck (op. cit.,
p. 334) has some remarks on a somewhat similar tendency sometimes observed
in dogs and horses.
[190] See Appendix to vol. lii of these _Studies_, "The Sexual Impulse
among Savages."
[191] See, especially, _ante_, pp. 163 et seq.
[192] Kistemaecker, as quoted by Bloch (_Beitraege, etc._, ii. p. 340),
alludes in this connection to the dark clothes of men and to the tendency
of women to wear lighter garments, to emphasize the white underlinen, to
cultivate pallor of the face, to use powder. "I am white and you are
brown; ergo, you must love me"; this affirmation, he states, may be found
in the depths of every woman's heart.
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