CUL-DAR109.B55-B75,B80-B86    Draft:    [1865--1868]   Draft of `Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants ': Final results of all exper[iments] in Lythrum to end of 1865   Text   Image

II. The long-styled by own pollen will be Class I. Designate each experiment as Plant number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (88 per cent of normal production) 103. [+] max. 149 [+] min. 84 [+] 124 [+] 114 [+] 133 [+] 142 [+] 131 [=] 980 [÷] 8 [in margin, in blue pencil] a moderate amt of pollen from short styled [17Av

CUL-DAR108.110    Note:    1865   Seedling from Red mid-styled Cowslips from Mr Scott [number and quality   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 110 Seedling for Red mid-styled Cowslips from Mr Scott — 1865. (Blue parentheses refer to self-fert. Plants under nat. during 1866.) 24. short-styled. —corolla larger (some moderate pods 1866) 25 Long-styled pon flat died (dead) 26 long-styled ([illeg] bright red) (1 pod) 27 equal-styled mid-styled — (stamens at top of corolla) (a good many fine pods) plenty of pollen —(pollen sent to William) 28 mid-styled, not fruited a little below [illeg

A564.1    Review:     [DuBois Henry A.] 1865. The origin and antiquity of man: Darwin, Huxley and Lyell [part I]. American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register 17 (2) (July): 169-197.   Text   Image   PDF

makes of them, and are not properly relevant to his hypothesis. The fact that all his numerous breeds of pigeons, manifesting every variety of form and color, were well ascertained descendants of the blue rock pigeon, gives good ground for the belief, that many plants and animals, presenting less marked physical differences, though classed as distinct species, are also descendants from a common parent. This furnishes a strong argument against the endless multiplication of species, with which

CUL-DAR133.11.1    Printed:    1865.10.00   On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago `Ibis' 1: 365-400 plus plates   Text   Image   PDF

. CARPOPHAGA LUCTUOSA, Reinwt.; Pl. Col. 247. Hab. Menado, Macassar (Celebes); Sulla Island (Wall.). Bill and feet lead-blue, bill horny yellow at the tip; iris black. This species is distinguished from the following by the rich cream-colour of its plumage, the powdery-white outer webs of all the quills, and the outer tail-feathers nearly all white. 66. CARPOPHAGA MELANURA, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 361. Hab. Bouru, Ceram, Amboyna, Batchian, Gilolo, Goram (Wall.). Bill greenish horn-colour

CUL-DAR133.11.1    Printed:    1865.10.00   On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago `Ibis' 1: 365-400 plus plates   Text   Image   PDF

greenish at base, yellow at tip; feet bright red. Length 12½ inches. 17. PTILONOPUS GULARIS, Quoy Gaim. Voy. Astr. t. 29; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 15. Hab. Menado (North Celebes) (Wall). Bill yellow; feet red; iris orange-brown; eyelids and orbits bare, blue. 18. PTILONOPUS LECHLANCHERI, Bp. (Trerolœma lechlancheri, Bp. Icon. Pig. pl. 16. (Carpophaga, pt., Gr.) Hab. New Guinea. [page] 37

CUL-DAR133.11.1    Printed:    1865.10.00   On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago `Ibis' 1: 365-400 plus plates   Text   Image   PDF

. pacifica, Gm.; Bp. Icon. Pig. pl. 35.; Consp. ii. p. 30. Æneo-viridis, aureo micans, alis caudaque purpureis; capite, collo, dorso superiore pectoreque pallide cinereis; nucha et corpore subtus vinaceo-canis; mento et fronte albis; tectricibus caudæ inferioribus castaneis, alis subtus cum tectri-cibus inferioribus fuscis; rostro parvo nigro-plumbeo, cera magna elevata tumida, pedibus et iridibus rubris. Brilliant metallic green, with golden and blue reflexions; wings and tail metallic purple

CUL-DAR242[.30]    Note:    1866   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1866]   Text   Image

Sunday, 30 December 1866 Monday, 31 December 1866 130 Jan 15 [Printed January, 1866] move blue Larkspur — get more blue white campanulas Miss Brewer — Miss Howitt Mrs Huxley 26 Abbey Place St John's wood Mems of Eliz Smit

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

surprised at one of the blue species varying into red, or conversely; but if all the species had blue flowers, the colour would become a generic character, and its variation would be a more unusual circumstance. I have chosen this example because an explanation is not in this case applicable, which most naturalists would advance, namely, that specific characters are more variable than generic, because they are taken from parts of less physiological importance than those commonly used for classing

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

on this subject. Breeders believe that long limbs are almost always accompanied by an elongated head. Some instances of correlation are quite whimsical: thus cats which are entirely white and have blue eyes are generally deaf. Colour and constitutional peculiarities go together, of which many remarkable cases could be given amongst animals and plants. From facts collected by Heusinger, it appears that white sheep and pigs are injured by certain plants, whilst dark-coloured individuals escape

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

species having very abnormal characters in certain respects, as compared with all other Columbid , though so like in most other respects to the rock-pigeon; the blue colour and various black marks occasionally appearing in all the breeds, both when kept pure and when crossed; the mongrel offspring being perfectly fertile; from these several reasons, taken together, we may safely conclude that all our domestic breeds have descended from the Columba livia with its geographical sub-species. In favour of

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

great gourd-family, and by various authors in our cereals. Similar cases occurring with insects under their natural conditions have lately been discussed with much ability by Mr. Walsh, who has grouped them under his law of Equable Variability. With pigeons, however, we have another case, namely, the occasional appearance in all the breeds, of slaty-blue birds with two black bars on the wings, a white [page] 18

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

rations distant, but that in each successive generation there has been a tendency to reproduce the character in question, which at last, under unknown favourable conditions, gains an ascendency. For instance, it is probable that in each generation of the barb-pigeon, which produces most rarely a blue and black-barred bird, there has been a tendency in each generation in the plumage to assume this colour. This view is hypothetical, but could be supported by some facts; and I can see no more

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

their eggs in an open or not domed nest, manifest a decided preference for nests containing eggs similar to their own. The European species certainly manifests some tendency towards a similar instinct, but not rarely departs from it, as is shown by her laying her dull and pale-coloured eggs in the nest of the Hedge-warbler with its bright greenish-blue eggs: had she invariably displayed the above instinct, it would assuredly have been added to those which it is assumed must all have been acquired

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

fertile offspring. With some exceptions, presently to be given, I fully admit that this is the rule. But the subject is surrounded by difficulties, for, looking to varieties produced under nature, if two forms hitherto reputed to be varieties be found in any degree sterile together, they are at once ranked by most naturalists as species. For instance, the blue and red pimpernel, which are considered by most botanists as varieties, are said by G rtner not to be quite fertile when crossed, and he

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

believe that these species have all descended from a striped progenitor, in the same manner as the several domestic breeds of pigeon have descended from the blue and barred rock-pigeon! On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, why should the specific characters, or those by which the species of the same genus differ from each other, be more variable than the generic characters in which they all agree? Why, for instance, should the colour of a flower be more

F385    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1866. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 4th ed. 8th thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

embryological succession, 406. Pierce, Mr., on varieties of wolves, 103. Pigeons with feathered feet and skin between toes, 12. , breeds described, and origin of, 21. , breeds of, how produced, 40, 44. , tumbler, not being able to get out of egg, 99. Pigeons reverting to blue colour, 190. , instinct of tumbling, 256. , young of, 526. Pigs, black, not affected by paint-root, 12. , modified by want of exercise, 236. Pistil, rudimentary, 534. Plants, poisonous, not affecting certain coloured animals, 12

CUL-DAR205.2.199-200    Note:    1866.07.09   An old pollard beech about 9ft in circumference   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [199] [in Darwin's hand in blue crayon:] (Distribution) Not one seed came up — so nothing. July 9 1866 An old pollard beech about 9ft in circumference with two oval holes on the crown 5 inches in diam. an oblique hole of 10 inches in diam. beneath these holes a large cavity with lateral ramifications extending down 30 inches beneath the lowest entrance hole. These entrance holes were surrounded by bark as if they might have closed up. The cavity

CUL-DAR83.43    Note:    [1867--1871]   Semnopithecus melalophos face blue except chin & lip   Text   Image

Semnopithecus melalophos face blue except chin lip. flesh-coloured — face surrounded with hair directed backwards Semnopithecus nemeus (Donc) most strongly coloured face yellow — white hair?? (describe) colour must be darker must be sexual selection S. mona still more strongly coloured face blue (Perhaps describe colours of these 2 species) (Finished of Ascagne

CUL-DAR84.2.130    Abstract:    [1867]   Blyth `Land and Water': 41   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 130 Mr Blyth One of the Drongos Bhringa Proportion on sexes Plumage ✔ With common Drongo shrikes are not tail-feathers with blue discs acquired, without whole plumage being renewed at vernal moult (p. 41) (Bhringa has racket feathers alone developed) 130

CUL-DAR80.B128-B134    Abstract:    [1867--1871]   Brehm I: [much of]   Text   Image

4 Brehm Tom. I Papio mormon Beard light citron, yellow Ears Hand Black Scrotum red. Buttock blue red colours. In youth face unfurrowed black, when mature bright-coloured - Females never so brightly coloured as males nor so large. - p. 91. Brehm p. 9 monkeys utter warning cry then all fly - with Baboon males alone in a body defend troop keep very true to each other - In fighting, use stones Fight with hands ( teeth) in p. 10 scratching - Kind to all young animals very fond of them. p. 11 Death

A26    Book:     Campbell, George. 1867. The Reign of Law. London: Alexander Strahan.   Text   Image

constitution and course of Nature. But then, to justify this conclusion, we must understand Nature in the largest sense, as including all that is In the round ocean, and in the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of mall. must understand it as including every agency which we see entering, or can conceive from analogy as capable of entering, into the causation of the world. First and foremost among these is the agency of our own Mind and Will. Yet, strange to say, all reference to this

A26    Book:     Campbell, George. 1867. The Reign of Law. London: Alexander Strahan.   Text   Image

colours of their parent, and that even where variations occur, they are inconstant, and tend to disappear. We have no knowledge, for example, that from the eggs of the Blue-tailed Sylph a pair of Green-tailed Sylphs can ever be produced. We have no reason to believe that a species of Lophornis with a tippet of emerald spangles, can ever hatch out a pair of young adorned with spangles of some other gem. And yet we cannot assert that such phenomena are impossible, nor can it be denied that, as a

A26    Book:     Campbell, George. 1867. The Reign of Law. London: Alexander Strahan.   Text   Image

by disease is the index of correlations whose nature is utterly beyond the reach of our anatomy. It is the same with malformations. Mr Darwin mentions one case of curious and unintelligible correlation viz., that a blue iris is associated in Cats with deafness; and, again, that the tortoise-shell colour of the fur is associated with the female sex in the same animal. In like manner the bright colours, and the more conspicuous ornaments of plumage in Birds, are correlated with the male sex. So

A6776    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3d ser. 4(3): 301-416, pls. 1-4.   Text

species which present the usual white or yellow tints of the family, it contains others whose rich hues of cinnabar-red, orange, and greyish-blue, are altogether peculiar. Most of the species fly swiftly, and many of the males assemble in troops about wet places and on river margins, after [page] 36

CUL-DAR86.C21    Abstract:    [1867--1871]   `Ibis' 1867: [ references concerning sexual selection]   Text   Image

Pitta strepitans as dome-shaped. Sexes alike -beautiful. Do sexes differ in beauty See Gould [Ramsay, Edward P. 1867. Illustrations of Australian oology. Ibis 2d ser. 3: 413-421, pl. VIII-IX. PDF] p 456 Ramsay describes bower of the Regent-bird Sericulus melinus as ornamented with 5 or 6 sp. of land-shells berries of various colours, blue, red black, which gave it when fresh a very pretty appearance. Besides these there were several Q [Ramsay, Edward P. 1867. [Letter on bower-building habits of

A6594    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1867. The disguises of insects. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip 3: 193-198. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 112]   Text

Kallima paralekta. I had the satisfaction of observing the habits of the latter in Sumatra, where it is rather plentiful at the end of the dry season. It is a large and showy insect when on the wing; the upper surface being glossed with blue and purple, and the fore wings crossed obliquely by a broad band of rich orange. The under surface of the wings is totally different, and is seen at a glance to resemble a dead leaf. The hind wings terminate in a little tail, which forms the stalk of the

CUL-DAR83.15    Note:    1867.02.15   Mr Bartlett — He & Keeper do not think the collar of hairs round face of   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [15] Feb 15 /67/ Zoolog. Gardens. Mr Bartlett - He keeper do not think the collar of hair round face of some monkeys serve as protection against bites - is a mere ornament. They seem to bite generally at throat, (N. B. beard wd protect this) (Pithecia satanas compact black beard male has rust beard, testes red coloured Almost all males (see Brehm) Cercopithecus griseo-viridis testes naked skin parts intense blue - rump red much less so in males.) - Is

A272    Review:     [Wallace, Alfred Russel]. 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review 88, no. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43.   Text

sufficiently invisible at night when it is of importance that their prey should not become aware of their proximity. It seems probable that in some cases that which would appear at first sight to be a source of danger to its possessor may really be a means of protection. Many showy and weak-flying butterflies have a very broad expanse of wing, as in the brilliant blue Morphos of Brazilian forests, and the large Eastern Papilios; yet these groups are tolerably plentiful. Now, specimens of these butterflies

A272    Review:     [Wallace, Alfred Russel]. 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review 88, no. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43.   Text

were not eatable. In other parts of the world an exactly parallel series of facts have been observed. The Danaid and the Acr id of the Old World tropics form in fact one great group with the Heliconid . They have the same general form, structure, and habits: they possess the same protective odour, and are equally abundant in individuals, although not so varied in colour, blue and white spots on a black ground being the most general pattern. The insects which mimic these are chiefly Papilios and

A272    Review:     [Wallace, Alfred Russel]. 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review 88, no. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43.   Text

poweri, a Longicorn from Australia, might certainly be taken for one of the same group, and several species from the Malay Islands are equally deceptive. In the Island of Celebes is found one of this group, having the whole body and elytra of a rich deep blue colour, with the head only orange; and in company with it an insect of a totally different family (Eucnemid ) with identically the same colouration, and of so nearly the same size and form as to completely puzzle the collector on every fresh

A272    Review:     [Wallace, Alfred Russel]. 1867. [Review of Origin 4th edn] Mimicry, and other protective resemblances among animals. Westminster and foreign quarterly review 88, no. 173, n.s. 32 No.1 (1 July): 1-43.   Text

, while the females are rich yellow and buff, spotted and marked so as exactly to resemble species of Heliconid with which they associate in the forest. In the Malay archipelago Mr. Wallace found a Diadema which had always been considered a male insect on account of its glossy metallic-blue tints, while its companion of sober brown was looked upon as the female. He discovered, however, that the reverse is the case, and that the rich and glossy colours of the female are imitative and protective

CUL-DAR82.B9    Note:    1867.12.00   Gunther / Labrus mixtus male orange with various bright blue stripes   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B9] Gunther Dec 67 Labrus mixtus, male orange with various bright blue stripes, female bright red with some black marks; hard to say which is brightest. Now this fish is closely allied to *Crenilabrus which makes nests, male female taking equal share; see Zoolog Record 1865 p. 194. With respect to the Labrus, G. remarks that black in the lower vertebrate classes is an eminently masculine colour. There is nothing peculiar in the egg laying of

CUL-DAR83.18    Note:    1867.12.06   Sexual Selection / The Cercopithecus cebus has beautiful blue face with   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [18] Dec 6 1867 Zoolog. Garden. Sexual selection The Cercopithecus cebus? [cephus] has beautiful blue face, with some white, shading into skin, but not sexual. The bearded monkey , the male has larger beard like orang

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

, if black carriers are matched for many successive generations, the offspring become first ashcoloured, and then blue with black wing-bars. Runts of the elongated breed had the same marks, but the croup was pale blue; the outer tail-feathers had white edges. Neumeister figures the great Florence Runt of a blue colour with black bars. Jacobins are very rarely blue, but I have received authentic accounts of at least two instances of the blue variety with black bars having appeared in England: blue

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

blue, being most frequently white in Europe, and very generally blue in India.25 We have seen that the wild C. livia in Europe, and dovecots in all parts of the world, often have the upper wing-coverts chequered with black; and all the most distinct races, when blue, are occasionally chequered in precisely the same manner. Thus I have seen Pouters, Fantails, Carriers, Turbits, Tumblers (Indian and English), Swallows, Bald-pates, and other toy-pigeons blue and chequered; and Mr. Esquilant has

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

-coloured, and then blue with black wing-bars. Runts of the elongated breed had the same marks, but the croup was pale blue; the outer tail-feathers had white edges. Neumeister figures the great Florence runt of a blue colour with black bars. Jacobins are very rarely blue, but I have received authentic accounts of at least two instances of the blue variety with black bars having appeared in England; blue jacobins were bred by Mr. Brent from two black birds. I have seen common tumblers, both Indian

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

, a white red-spot, a red runt, and a blue pouter, was slaty-blue and chequered exactly like a dovecot-pigeon. I may here wings, but the whole tail and tail-coverts were dark bluish-grey. Another mongrel, whose four grandparents were a red runt, white trumpeter, white fantail, and the same blue pouter, was pure white all over, except the tail and upper tail-coverts, which were pale fawn, and except the faintest trace of double wing-bars of the same pale fawn tint. [page] 20

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

chequered with black; and all the most distinct races, when blue, are occasionally chequered in precisely the same manner. Thus I have seen Pouters, Fantails, Carriers, Turbits, Tumblers (Indian and English), Swallows, Bald-pates, and other toy-pigeons blue and chequered; and Mr. Esquilant has seen a chequered Runt. I bred from two pure blue Tumblers a Chequered bird. The facts hitherto given refer to the occasional appearance in pure races of blue bird with black wing-bars, and likewise of blue and

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

as the year 1600. I crossed a male nun with a female red common tumbler, which latter variety generally breeds true. Thus neither parent had a trace of blue in the plumage, or of bars on the wing and tail. I should premise that common tumblers are rarely blue in England. From the above cross I reared several young: one was red over the whole back, but with the tail as blue as that of the rock-pigeon; the terminal bar, however, was absent, but the outer feathers were edged with white: a second

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

trumpeter, a white fantail, a white red-spot, a red runt, and a blue pouter, was slaty-blue and chequered exactly like a dovecot-pigeon. I may here add a remark made to me by Mr. Wicking, who has had more experience than any other person in England in breeding pigeons of various colours: namely, that when a blue, or a blue and chequered bird, having black wing-bars, once appears in any race and is allowed to breed, these characters are so strongly transmitted that it is extremely difficult to

A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

Jambu, or rose apple (Eugenia sp.), was in flower in the village, flocks of the little lorikeet (Charmosyna placentis), already met with in Gilolo, came to feed upon the nectar, and I obtained as many specimens as I desired. Another beautiful bird of the parrot tribe was the Geoffroyus cyanicollis, a green parrot with a red bill and head, which colour shaded on the crown into azure blue, and thence into verditer blue and the green of the back. Two large and handsome fruit pigeons, with metallic

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

by Mr. Wicking, who has had more experience than any other person in England in breeding pigeons of various colours: namely, that when a blue, or a blue and chequered bird, having black wing-bars, once appears in any race and is allowed to breed, these characters are so strongly transmitted that it is extremely difficult to eradicate them. What, then, are we to conclude from this tendency in all the chief domestic races, both when purely bred and more especially when intercrossed, to produce

CUL-DAR77.113r-114r    Draft:    [1868--1870]   Draft of Descent, vol. 2, folios 62 and 56.   Text   Image

(Mammalia colours) are the red blue wattles naked skin on the head neck of the turkey-cocks.  But the most remarkable peculiarity is that when the enormous canine teeth are fully developed in the adult male curious bony protuberances of bone are formed on each side of the nose cheek, which are deeply furrowed longitudinally furrowed deeply, with the skin over them brilliantly coloured as above described. In the young if both sexes in the adult females these protuberances are scarcely

A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

in the depths of the forest were gloomy and dark in the extreme, and often full of fine-leaved herbaceous plants and curious blue-foliaged Lycopodiaceæ It was in such places as these that I obtained many of my most beautiful small butterflies, such as Sospita statira and Taxila pulchra, the gorgeous blue Amblypodia hercules, and many others. On the skirts of the plantations I found the handsome blue Deudorix despœna, and in the shady woods the lovely Lycæna wallacei. Here, too, I obtained the

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

wing-bars during several generations, with a uniform red barb (bred from two black barbs); and the offspring presented decided but faint traces of wing-bars. I crossed a uniform red male runt with a white trumpeter; and the offspring had a slaty-blue tail, with a bar at the end, and with the outer feathers edged with white. I also crossed a female black and white chequered trumpeter (of a different strain from the last) with a male almond-tumbler, neither of which exhibited a trace of blue, or

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

wing-bars during several generations, with a uniform red barb (bred from two black barbs); and the offspring presented decided but faint traces of wing-bars. I crossed a uniform red male runt with a white trumpeter; and the offspring had a slaty-blue tail, with a bar at the end, and with the outer feathers edged with white. I also crossed a female black and white chequered trumpeter (of a different strain from the last) with a male almond-tumbler, neither of which exhibited a trace of blue, or

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

the rerminal bar. Mr. Eaton27 matched two short-faced tumblers, namely, a splash cock and kite hen (neither of which are blue or barred), and from the first nest he got a perfect blue bird, and from the second a silver or pale blue bird, both of which, in accordance with all analogy, no doubt presented the usual characteristic marks. I crossed two male black barbs with two female red spots. These latter have the whole body and wings white, with a spot on the forehead, the tail and tail-coverts red

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

blue birds, sometimes chequered, with double wing-bars, with white or blue croups, with a bar at the end of the tail, and with the outer tail-feathers edged with white, affords an argument of the greatest weight in favour of the view that all are descended from Columba livia, including under this name the three or four wild varieties or sub-species before enumerated. [page] 20

A1013.2    Book:     Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. vol. 2.   Text

Could it have been seen from an elevation, it would have had a fine effect; from below I could only catch sight of masses of gorgeous colour in clusters and festoons overhead, about which flocks of blue and orange lories were fluttering and screaming. A good many people died at Dobbo this season; I believe about twenty. They were buried in a little grove of Casuarinas behind my house. Among the traders was a Mahometan priest, who superintended the funerals, which were very simple. The body was

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in the dried and flattened skins of the natives, through which alone it is at present known. The feet appear to be dark blue. This rare and elegant little bird is found only on the mainland of New Guinea, and in the island of Mysol. A still more rare and beautiful species than the last is the Diphyllodes wilsoni, described by Mr. Cassin from a native skin in the rich museum of Philadelphia. The same bird was afterwards named Diphyllodes respublica by Prince Buonaparte, and still later