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CUL-DAR84.2.200a Note: [Undated] Swan in the Down British spec[ies] white with light brownish beak — Black Australian swan is even lighter coloured. N Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.83-84 Figure: [Undated] [print of woodcut of feathers of Selasphorus platycerus, male and female] Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.106 Note: [Undated] species building in Holes / dull / bright [table] Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.113 Note: [Undated] Trogons [list of species with notes on sexual differences] Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.125 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]' vol 1 Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.127 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `[G]417' Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.129 Abstract: [Undated] various `[references incomplete]' Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.163r Note: [Undated] [numbers and table relating to comparison of sizes of crossed and Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.187 Miscellaneous: Undated see CUL-DAR84.2.183 Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.28-30 Figure: [Undated] [angles and colours of feathers] Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.55-56 Abstract: [Undated] [unstated] `[reference incomplete]' vol 3 Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.2 Note: [Undated] Blyths Laws (corrected) / (1) / When the plumage of the young male & Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.20 Note: [Undated] That the blackness of blackbird is for ornament we may feel sure from the Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.200b Note: [Undated] Sexual Selection / The young of Black Australian Swan is nearly black but Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.9 Note: [Undated] Birds / I saw that male character for conspicuous[ness] & other reasons Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.19 Note: [Undated] In all the Heron-tribe many ornaments plume & fimbriated feathers I Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.10 Abstract: [Undated] MacGillivray `British birds' III: 79-95 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.105 Note: [Undated] Sexual Selection / Take Peacock-feather give woodcut — give gradation - Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.107 Note: [Undated] Cephalepis loddigesi / [male] with all but central tail-feather tipped Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.11 Note: [Undated] I am nearly sure Bechstein or some one says the spurs in Hens of some Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.111 Note: [Undated] Measure length of tail in [female] of Reeves Pheasant I know the length Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.114 Note: [Undated] Gould Monograph of Trogonidae / Count how many species there are both Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.115 Abstract: [Undated] Barrington D `Philosophical Transactions' 1773: 252, 262 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.119 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Naturalists' Library': 167 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.12 Note: [Undated] J Jenner Weir Partridge monogamous & rudiment of spurs — How in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.126 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Ibis' 1: 457 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.13 Note: [Undated] Birds / Ceriornis American Gold-finch / Kingfishers — Halcyon pulchella Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.132 Note: [Undated] Jerdon `[reference incomplete]' I: 389 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.133 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]' IV: 392; Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.134 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Birds of Great Britain' [reference incomplete] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.135 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Poultry book': 139; Dixon `[reference incomplete]': 8 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.140 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Ibis' 1: 268 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.141 Abstract: [Undated] Brehm `[reference incomplete]' IV: 470 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.15 Note: [Undated] Common Partridge good case of sexual difference on breast alone when I Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.151 Abstract: [Undated] Wallace A.R `Travels': [various] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.153 Abstract: [Undated] Audbon `[reference incomplete]' IV: 507, 566; Gould `[reference incomplete]' II: 32, 68 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.154 Abstract: [Undated] Lucas P `[reference incomplete]' II: 296 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.156 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Monograph' II: pl 98 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.157 Abstract: [Undated] Barrington D `Philosophical Transactions' 1773: 164 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.158 Abstract: [Undated] Yarrell `[reference incomplete]' III: 529 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.159 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Humming birds' IV: [pp?] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.172 Note: [Undated] Birds Sexual Selection / Swinhoes cases (if I understand) of certain Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.176 Note: [Undated] Crossoptilon tibetanum white except tail whiter bird than silver Pheasant Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.177 Note: [Undated] The bird with ocellated feathers which is called the peacock-pheasant in the Indian Language — Bartlett tells me is in voice & habits really allied to Peacocks. Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.17a Note: [Undated] Cockatoos are remarkably white for land-bird but large / no bird more Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.17b Note: [Undated] As the Beaks of some male Birds are brightly coloured in contrast with Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.181 Note: [Undated] After considerable enquiry I can find no group of considerable size in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.182 Note: [Undated] Caprimulgus prodigiously elongated tail & primary wing-feathers several Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.186 Note: [Undated] variegated green & white & the young males from the nest are Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.21 Abstract: [Undated] Wallace 8vo Pamp. (375) p. 367 In Treronidæ (pigeons) colour beautiful less vivid or absent in females Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.216 Note: [Undated] Wallace's view requires sexual limitation just as much as mine — only Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.218 Note: [Undated] Mr Bartlett says if you pull feathers out of neck or head of young Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.22 Note: [Undated] The case of sexes alike but [female] not acquiring full plumage till Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.220 Note: [Undated] Rhamphaston swainsonii / Gould speaks "of the extent of variation" in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.24 Abstract: [Undated] [unstated] `[reference incomplete]' 14: pl 67 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.26 Abstract: [Undated] J.J Weir `[reference incomplete]': 62 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.31 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `[reference incomplete]': 340-562 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.37 Abstract: [Undated] Lloyd L `Field sports of north of Europe': 315 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.38 Abstract: [Undated] Müller J.F.T `Facts and arguments for Darwin': 79 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.58 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Handbook' [reference incomplete] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.60 Note: [Undated] I fear I must look at Poly[plectron?] Hardwickii & Malacconse[?] — are Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.201 Note: [Undated] Sexual Selection / Male & female of 2 sp[ecimens] of Marabou[?] Stork do Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.207 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Monograph of Trochilidae' [general] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.116 Note: [Undated] Mr Gould — Argus Pheasant / Look to [first] sec[ondary] feathers I have Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.120 Abstract: [Undated] Schomburgk `Geog Journal' 10: 236 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.130 Abstract: [Undated] Blyth `Land and Water' [reference incomplete]: 41 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.136-137 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Birds of Great Britain': [reference incomplete] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.142-143 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]' II: 255; V: 601 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.144 Abstract: [Undated] Blyth & Weir `[reference incomplete]' Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.16 Note: [Undated] It is doubtful point whether masculine characters first appear Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.163-164 Note: [Undated] If female Pheasant for instance had been rendered dull by protection - Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.173 Note: [Undated] After facts about young & [females] having embryonic coloured plumage Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.174 Note: [Undated] Gallinaceae when sexes are not gaudily coloured but have peculiar Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.179 Note: [Undated] Cyanecula suecica / Red-throated Blue-breast / [male] fine blue breasted Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.3 Note: [Undated] Youn[g] of both sexes in first perfect plumage alike / N.B by true Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.35 Note: [Undated] Cervus Campestris spotted white when a fawn Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.36 Note: [Undated] [excised pages] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.49 Abstract: [Undated] MacGillivray `[British birds?]': vol 5 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.5 Note: [Undated] Birds / When colour is injurious it cd be most injurious to the young & Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.147 Abstract: [Undated] MacGillivray `[references incomplete]' Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.184-185 Note: [Undated] Pavo muticus or spiciferus (p 7) — topknot in both sexes equal? How in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.46-48 Note: [Undated] See Gould Trochilidae or call on him [queries] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.50-54 Note: [Undated] [miscellaneous notes mainly on bird behaviour, numbered A-O] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.39-45 Note: [Undated] (1) Are [females] of any species (get names) quite destitute of ocelli Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.70-78 Abstract: [Undated] MacGillivray `[British birds?]': vols 1-5 [much of] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.87-97 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3, 5; Jerdon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3; Gould `[reference incomplete]' vols 1-2 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.170 Note: [ny].02.17 I see in B[ritish] Museum there are 3 or 4 vultures nearly white or with Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.169 Note: [ny].03.02 I am right about sexes of Condor viz leaden longitudinal comb & iris - Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.122 Note: [ny].03.20 Chinese Goose Anser cygnoides with stripe down back of neck [male] with Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.198-199 Note: [ny].03.28 Mr Bartlett after his immense experience with birds of all kinds allows Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.214 Note: [ny].05.11 The age at which variations of colour of the plumage supervened after Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.108-109 Note: [ny].11.15 Urosticte / [diagram] 4 middle-last feathers / x a microscopical tip of Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.138 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Monog of Trogonidae' 1838 [pp?] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.27 Abstract: [Undated] Temminck `Coloriées' 5 1838: pl 487-488 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.34 Note: [1838.09.11] [excised p. 95 from Notebook D] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.165 Abstract: [Undated] Bechstein `[reference incomplete]': 4 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.117-118 Note: [Undated] Birds Display / Gould once saw & made a sketch of a male Argus pheasant Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.139 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Birds of Asia' I: [pp?] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.161 Abstract: [Undated] Schomburgk ` Royal Geog Society' 13 1843: 31; Audubon `[reference incomplete]': 1-15 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.67 Note: [Undated] (1) Are F[emales] of any species of Polyplectron quite destitute of Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.110 Note: [Undated] Mr Gould / Urosticte benjamani: the female has all tail-feathers Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.166-167 Note: [Undated] [queries [and answers? by Bartlett?] numbered 5-15 concerning sexual Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.148 Abstract: [Undated] St John `Tour in Sutherlandshire' 1849 I: 185 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.121 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 13 1854: 157 Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.123 Abstract: [1857] Wallace A.R `Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 20 1857: 412; Audubon [reference incomplete] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.32 Abstract: [Undated] Livingstone `Missionary Travels': 254 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.23 Abstract: [Undated] Saussure H de `Arch Sci Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève' 1858: [pp?] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.189 Note: 1860.01.27 Gould showed me the Heliothrix auriculata (a humming-bird) (same remark Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.25 Abstract: [Undated] Malherbe A `Monographie des Picidées' 1861: vol 3 plates Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.190 Note: 1861.04.19 Mr Gould remarked to me that all birds of which the males have beautiful Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.57 Abstract: [Undated] Jerdon `Birds of India' vol 1 Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.162 Abstract: [Undated] Jerdon `Birds of India': xxix Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.98-104 Abstract: 1862--1867 [references incomplete] `Ibis' 1862-1866 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.191-192 Abstract: [Undated] Jerdon T.C `Birds of India' 1863 II: [much of] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.128 Abstract: [Undated] Jerdon T.C `Birds of India' III 1864: 507 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.149 Abstract: [Undated] Salvin `Ibis' 1864: 375 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.145-146 Abstract: [Undated] Jerdon `Birds of India' III: 517, 618-621 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.155 Abstract: [Undated] Swinhoe `Ibis'[?] 1865: 542-543; 1866: 131, 403-405 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.175 Abstract: [Undated] Livingstone `Zambesi' 1865: 66 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.18 Abstract: [1865] Wallace A.R 'On the Pigeons of the Malay Archipelago' Ibis 1865. Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.193 Note: 1866.04.29 Sexual Selection affects ordinary characters Mr Gould showed me two Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2 Note: 1867--1870 [All of DAR84.2 in one sequence of 251 images] Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.124 Abstract: [Undated] [reference incomplete] `Proceedings of the Zoological Society' 1867 pt 1 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.150 Abstract: [Undated] Baker S `Nile tributaries of Abyssinia' 1867: 203 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.178 Note: 1867.02.15 Casuarius galeatus male alone incubates & takes care of young Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.33 Note: 1867.02.15 spur-winged goose male much largest spur & males fight with; but in the Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.188 Note: 1867.06.22 Pavo muticus here always has spurs Blyth says always & female much green Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.4 Note: [1867.07.00.after] Blackbird which in nest of white feathered[?] differs sexually — no Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.194 Note: 1867.08.21 K[owa]lewsky tells me that the male Tetrao urogallus congregate at Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.14 Note: 1867.12.03 Dr Gunther remarks in oppos[ition] to Wallace that male blackbirds & Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.196 Note: 1867.12.05 The tail feathers of snipe described Proceedings Zoolog Society 1858 — Have I Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.195 Note: 1867.12.05 Mr Gould doubts whether male Black-bird sits much on eggs Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.65 Note: 1867.12.06 As far then as the principle of gradation throws any light on the steps Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.131 Abstract: [Undated] Sclater `Proceedings Zoological Society' 1868: 265 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.187v Correspondence: Blyth Edward to Darwin Charles Robert [1868][.03.25.before] Canpylopterus hemileucuus[?], Eustephorus[?], merganser, Neomorpha, Juan Fernandez, Gould, Salvin Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.202 Note: 1868.02.25 Reeves game-keeper says he has just killed a magpie belonging to nest Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.59 Note: 1868.03.17 (see Ibis) / Procnias corniculata[?] the bell-bird — must be different Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.63-64 Note: 1868.03.17 Polyplectron napoleonis / Much of back & wings metallic green with Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.66 Note: 1868.03.19 In the glossy Ibis (Falcinellus igneus) male scarlet only during breeding Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.171 Note: 1868.03.22 The Horn-bill Buceros bicornis in the male the inside of mouth is black Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.208 Note: 1868.03.23 Mr Osb[ert] Salvin showed me several Trogons & many differed greatly in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.209 Note: 1868.03.23 G.R Gray says when the male Falcinellus igneus moults under confinement Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.210 Note: 1868.03.24 Gould / The almost invariable rules with Birds as long known is that when Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.197 Note: 1868.03.27 Wild male Turkey all feathers erected — tail expanded like fan showing Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.212 Note: 1868.04.08 Reeves says it has frequently he believes invariably happened that when Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.213 Note: 1868.04.30 Mr Birkbeck has been assured by trustworthy men that if one of Golden Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.7 Note: [1868].05.04 Young & immature & inexperienced Kingfisher Parrots & Woodpecker & wd Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.6 Note: 1868.05.04 I wd accept Wallace's view about Birds did I not remember Pigeons odd the Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.8 Note: 1868.05.06 As I knew of no case where female bright whilst young & then dull this is Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.215 Note: 1868.09.04 When a species gets isolated two sets of conditions will cause slight Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.217 Note: 1868.11.07 Mr Bartlett knows cases of Parrot which always for long time showed Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.219 Note: 1868.11.08 Toucans / Some skin at base of beak & eyes splendidly coloured & such Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.203 Note: 1868.11.11 Very many parrots splendid crimson in large part of body / Buxton / Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.204 Note: 1868.11.11 Cheer[?] Pheasant P wallichii sexes differ but little — dull-coloured Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.205-206 Note: 1868.11.11 Bartlett showed me specimens of male Polyplectron stuffed in position in Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.168 Correspondence: Günther Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf 'Albert' to Darwin Charles Robert [1868--1869?] Anser cygnoides, Argali, bird, Crossoptilon, deer, duck, Gallinaceae, Gallus bankiva, monkey, P[hasianus] nap[olitanus], pheasant (common), pheasant (reeves), ram, rhinoceros, turkey, Bartlett, Gunther, Wallace Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.79-82,85-86 Correspondence: Salvin Osbert to [Bonney Thomas George and Dove P.E] [1868?] Salvin Osbert to [Bonney Thomas George and Dove P.E] Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.68-69 Note: [1868?].02.17--[1868?].02.18 Argus Pheasant / Each ocellus corresponds to a chain of black spots so Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.61-62 Note: [1868?].03.19 Polyplectron / The eye in the Java Peacock is more deeply notched from Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.183,187 Correspondence: Darwin Charles Robert to Blyth E [1869] Bird of paradise, Caprimulgus, Dichurus, Eumomota superciliaris, humming bird, Indian drongo, kingfisher, Lophorus, peacock Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.160 Abstract: [Undated] Elliot D.G `Proceedings of the Zoological Society' 1869: 589 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.221 Abstract: [Undated] Jäger G `Darwinsche Theorie' 1869: 59 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.211 Correspondence: Ruck M.L (Mrs) to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) [1869][.05.29.before] Ruck M.L (Mrs) to Darwin Francis (Sir [1913]) Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.222 Note: 1869.02.16 In a whole group of Humming Birds it is very curious to observe as Gould Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.112 Note: 1869.02.22 Mr Gould's spec[imen]/ Tail of [male] Reeves Pheasant is 16 inches long Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.223 Note: 1869.03.25 Harrison Weir says who has [been] making enquiries says "some fanciers Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.211v Note: 1869.05.29 Dr Engleheart off a single nest shot 35 starlings & yet brood reared & is Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.1 Miscellaneous: [Undated] wrapper for items 84.2: 2- annotated `Scraps / Birds/ Sex[ual] Selection'

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CUL-DAR84.2.152 Draft: [Undated] of addendum [to Draft of Descent,?]: p. 159 Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.180 Draft: [Undated] [of Draft of Descent,?] cocks to see which will sing longest & I am assured by Mr Yarrell that a good male will sing till he drops Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.224 Note: 1870.06.00 Argus pheasant — 10 ornamented primaries — better say all the primaries Text Image

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CUL-DAR84.2.85-86 Miscellaneous: Undated see CUL-DAR84.2.79 Image