Birds and beasts have their epicurean tastes and will go through a good deal of labor for the sake of a very little titbit. In Australia there is a species of pigeon (Carpophaga spilorhoa) which feeds, or rather takes a sort of appetizer, on the fruit of a combre-taceous plant, named Terminalia melanocarpa. This fruit is little more than a hard stone, an inch long, with the thinnest kind of a sarcocarp. It certainly can afford no nourishment to its greedy devourers, but must be enjoyed solely for the extremely bitter and to human beings very unpleasant taste. - Independent.