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Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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aspect. 12th To day I walked much further within the country; but all to no use; every feature in the landscape remains the same. I found an Ostriches nest which contained 27 eggs. Each egg equals in weight 11 of a common hens; so that the quantity of food in this nest was actually the same as 297 hens eggs. We had some difficulty in getting on board; as there was a very fresh breeze right in our teeth. 13th, Sunday 14th, 15th On Sunday the Schooners came down from the creek anchored alongside
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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feathers vary in Turkey - Q 316 number of eggs in Tame Turkey 335 Range of wild Fowls - Acosta only authority for American Origin 337 Fowl has 14 Caudals 339 Breed of Hens with Spurs, good layers p.410 355,6 In Capons, Tail Comb continue growing. They • castrate Hens. NB Great variability of Comb, in Spurs, variation of Secondary Male Characters 400 Cocks have not enlarged skull in Polands, only Hens! 406 Frizzled Cock with split Feathers Spurs various; Hens have sometimes. N.B. Ld Spencer has shown
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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, he, hy, ig, oo, phy, sp, sx, sy, t, tm, v NB p1 to 21 Rest Nothing SB 11 Crested Fowl either wattles or beard, parent no beard easily killed by Hawks: cannot see them for tuft can hardly see to eat)Q 12 Breed without Middle long tail feathers NQ/fo 17 Black-boned degenerate in Germany Qa 20 Hens with spurs NQ 4 wb How many eggs has wild F.? 6 27-28« vierzehn /w 14 tail feathers 9 wb (14 kinds with subdivisions) 11 wb The tufted fowls prevent fowls from seeing food will grow them, be easily
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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801 802 beak\ massive , 26u The spur , 27u 'dense I leg , 28-29m 125 fî3-2m/ÏÏ2« are\savage 128 23-25m 131 ÎÏ22-9m 135 l-6m, î\14-12m/Q 137 3-6m 139 ÎÎ8~4m, tÏ7c/a an An ÏÏ7 ... , 1Î7« bird as * Mr T's poultry works part 7 NB p. 165 Pheasant male; p. 155; 157; 165,167 Hybrids 150 ÏÏ28-22m 155 4-7m, 8u pairs I hens , 8-9w Hens selected llu Golden Mooneys , 14-16m, 19u hens , TÎ4w thelsmall , fll- 156 20-22m, 29* 157 ÎÎ27-24m, fÎ23u year\feathers , ÎÎ22-9m 158 23-28w As also produced by crossing
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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treatise on breeding poultry, pigeons and rabbits 7th edn; London; 1834 [CUL] beh, br, f, he, no, wd NF1 Recommended by Mr Brent NF2 p. 147 NB1 Hens, Domestic Hints p70 NB2 p13; 17 to 24; 30; 54; 87; 106; 130; 133; 152; 154; 156; 165; 168; 176; 185; 203 SB Oß 13 Game Chickens very pugnacious. Q Eggs very thin. Ch 6 Q 30 Some Hens much addicted to lay eggs in other nests 54 tapping on board with nail induced chicken to peck 107 colour of Ducks eggs going with plumage - Correlation (Memb. B. Ayles
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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415 416 HÜHNER comb; under other comb. 22-23w very big eggs 27-28w Hens spurs like cocks wb [I suspect all this copied from some Systematics Book] 21 wb See Linnaeus Syst Nat (my copy) vol II p. 737 for good references Bright Pallas Willughby 3-4w 5-toed breed spur divided 65 zb« HUMBOLDT, Alexander von Cosmos 2 vols., trans. E. Sabine; London; Longman, Brown, Green Longmans; 1846 [Down] vol. 1 p HUMBOLDT, Alexander von Essflf géo-gnostique sur le gisement des roches dans les deux hémisphères
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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15-16u utterly incapable I? 19-17m)w Mem. plants gain habits 25-28m/? 240 16-19m/18w Zoophites 41114-38m TEALE, Thomas Pridgin Dangers of health London; J. A. Churchill; 1878 [Down] TEGETMEIER, William Bernhard The poultry book 11 parts; London; Orr Co.; 1856-57 [CUL] cs, he, v, wd, y part 1 NB 0/ part 2 NB 0/ part 3 NB p. 47, p. 48 47 26-27m, 27-28m/Q 48 10-12m, lOu the I quill part 4 NB Cuckoo Cochins; 53; 56 52 31-33m/33u Cuckoo 53 26-28m part 5 65; 66; 72 £o Correlation of Eggs and plumage
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F3275
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Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.
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Hen; Cocks Hens almost always different Spangling v. wild Hen which is I think barred (e»; ♦/ ) Cuckoo Poland; Cocks Hens almost always different from part Spangling barring plannedO in Hens SB2 317; 320; 333; 342 (äj; *e ) Always put after Page names of Breeds (Shangae) (Game) c; connect perhaps * by dots (See p. 27); Clean well the pencil marks.-; Keep Book Clean.; Write smallish on one side, number your pages. (over) ♦ a - ^ Mr Norman put in name at top 171; 172 *; 176; 177; 186 ♦ £ Good
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characteristics may remain latent he verified by enumerating the effects of castration and diseased gonads, and by noting how old hens come to resemble roosters and how male chicken-pheasant hybrids or castrated cocks may incubate eggs. The same kind of analysis may be found in Darwin's treatment of atavism (i.e., reversion to an ancestral state). He provides many examples of this phenomenon, such as the presence of zebra-like stripes in crosses between the horse and the ass. * Origin, pp. 159-167
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suggested a possible explanation for the fact that where one sex is more conspicuous than the other, it is usually the male. * Variorum, p. 372. (This argument was omitted in the sixth edition). He maintained that the female is exposed to great danger when incubating the eggs, and that, therefore, selection prevents change in the direction of conspicuousness. Wallace supported this hypothesis and argued that although brilliant coloration must have tended to develop equally in both sexes, it became
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