RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Swinhoe & Sclater, Proceedings of the Zoological Society. CUL-DAR193.95. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).


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p. 290— Mr. Swinhoe has recently ascertained that the Pavo nigripennis is found wild in Cochin China, and is the only species there. See Ibis 1868 pt. IV and P.ZS. 1868.

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[Variation 1: 290: "This form has lately been named on the high authority of Mr. Sclater as a distinct species, viz. Pavo nigripennis, which he believes will hereafter be found wild in some country, but not in India, where it is certainly unknown."
R. Swinhoe & P. L. Sclater. [Letters]. 1868. Proceedings of the zoological society, pp. 530-31: Swinhoe: "He had also seen there in confinement the Black-winged Peafowl (Pavo nigripennis, Scalter*), and had subsequently ascertained that this was the ordinary species of Cochin-China." Sclater: "*P.Z.S. 1860, p. 221 et 1863, p. 123. See Mr. Darwin's remark on the interest attached to this species, 'Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 290"]


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