[24] D. G. Brinton, _Races and Peoples_, p. 55. “The sequel of the sexual impulse is the formation of the family through the development of parental affection. This instinct is as strong in many of the lower animals as in human beings. In primitive conditions it is largely confined to the female parent, the father paying but slight attention to the welfare of his offspring. To this, rather than to doubt of paternity, should we attribute the very common habit in such communities of reckoning ancestry in the female line only.” [25] The ostrich forms, however, a curious exception. The male sits on the eggs, and brings up the young birds, the female never troubling herself about either of these duties.—Brehm, _Bird-Life_, p. 324. [26] Brehm, _Bird-Life_, p. 285, and Herman Müller’s _Am Neste_. [27] Rengger, _Naturgeschichte der Saugethiere von Paraguay_, p. 354. [28] Brehm, vol. iii., p. 206. [29] Wallace, _The Malay Archipelago_, vol. ii., p. 447. [30] Charles Morris Woodford, _A Naturalist among the Head-Hunters_, p. 31. [31] _Report to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia on Papua_, for 1909, Appendix D, p. 107. [32] J. H. P. Murray, _Papua or British New Guinea_, 1912. [33] Murray, _Papua or British New Guinea_, p. 211. [34] _Ibid._, p. 214. [35] _Op. cit._, i., p. 76. [36] D. G. Brinton, _Races and Peoples_, pp. 53 and 54. [37] D. G. Brinton, _Races and Peoples_, p. 55. [38] Dapper, _L’Afrique_, p. 309. [39] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 52. [40] Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 609. [41] Joseph Shooter, _Kafirs of Natal_, p. 88. [42] James Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_. [43] Nyendael, Ulricht, 1688, quoted by H. Ling Roth in _Great Benin_, pp. 35–36. [44] Mary H. Kingsley, _Travels in West Africa_, p. 472. [45] Dudley Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_, p. 202. [46] Slaughter, _Australian Aborigines_, p. 39. [47] M. Kracheninnikow, _Histoire du Kamchatka_, chap. xii. [48] Henry W. Little, _Madagascar_, p. 60. [49] H. H. Ploss, _Das Kind in Brauch und Sitte der Völker_, vol. ii., p. 257. [50] _Ibid._, vol. ii., p. 258. [51] Dale, _Journal, Anthrop. Inst._, vol. xxv., p. 183. [52] Godfrey Dale, _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, vol. xxv., p. 182. [53] Felix de Azara, _Voyages dans l’Amérique Méridionale_, vol. ii., pp. 93 and 115. [54] Tutila, _Journal of the Polynesian Society_, vol. i., p. 267. [55] Otto von Kotzebue, _A Voyage of Discovery into the South Sea and Bering Straits_, London, 1821, vol. iii., p. 173. [56] Edward M. Curr, _The Australian Race_, vol. i., p. 70. [57] H. B. Guppy, _The Solomon Islands_, p. 42. [58] H. H. Romilly, _The Western Pacific_, p. 68. [59] George Turner, _Samoa_, p. 284. [60] R. L. Stevenson, _In the South Seas_, p. 38. [61] Samuel Gason, “The Dieyerie Tribe,” in vol. ii. of Curr’s _Australia_. [62] J. L. Krapf, _Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours in Eastern Africa_, p. 69.