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). 1808. Letters on the subject of the Catholics, to my brother Abraham, who lives in the country. London. [? ed.] Prescott, William Hickling. 1847. History of the conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas. 2 vols. London. Sleeman, William Henry. 1844. Rambles and recollections of an Indian official. 2 vols. London. Southey, Charles Cuthbert. 1849-50. The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. 6 vols. London. Tocqueville, Charles Alexis Henri Maurice, Clérel

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), was, true to her name, a lodging house keeper at 34, Nutford Place in 1841. Landsborough Revd D. [Prockvaly] Saltcoats Ayrshire v. Directory Scotland?  David Landsborough (1779-1854), Scottish clergyman and naturalist who likely sent barnacle specimens from Ayrshire. No extant correspondence with Darwin. See Darwin to ? [15 or 22 Oct. 1848]. Correspondence vol. 4. Lowe Revd. R. T. at Rev J. Guerin Norton Fitz Warren Taunton Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874), clergyman, botanist and English

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.— Cattle of Falklands breaking into 2 colours Believes black-skinned fowls are found all over East, but has never seen — Croll thus characterized, nor Layard in Ceylon. Annal Mag. N. Hist. With respect to the Creole pullets in Prichard, thinks that they had when burn down, but that this was not succeeded by usual short clattering of feathers except on wing tail so that they look plucked whilst following their mother as is very common the case here— Thinks this explains Prichards fact, that fowls were

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result of reason, rather than of blind instinct. . ]12/How unintellectual does a snail appear, but hear Mr. W. White,6 who fixed a land-shell mouth uppermost in a chink of rock, in a short time the animal protruded itself to its utmost length, attaching its foot vertically 1 Kirby Spence Introduct. vol. 2. p. 74, 525. [See appendix for further comment of Darwin's on this point.] 2 Saugethiere von Paraguay. 1830. p. 39. 3 [Here Darwin added in pencil: 'Yarrell's case of Gull'.] 4 Layard on Cobra

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, 1810. IV, 53. v, 55 a. VII, 8. Latham, John. General Synopsis of Birds, 3 vols., London, 1781-5. 1st and 2nd supplements. London, 1787-1801. IX, 169. Latreille, P. A. 'Introduction a la g ographie g n rale des arachnides et des insectes, ou des climats propres a ces animaux.' Mus um Hist. Nat. M m., 3 (1817), 37-67. XI, 1.' Lay, George Tradescant. 'Observations on a Species of Pteropus from Bonin.' Zool. J., 4 (1829), 457-9. VIII, 8. Layard, Edgar Leopold. 'Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon

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(excepting the black stripe down the back) with the C. mesomelas of South Africa. Mr. E. Layard informs me that he has seen a Caffre dog which closely resembled an Esquimaux dog. In Australia the Dingo is both domesticated and wild; though this animal may have been introduced aboriginally by man, yet it must be considered as almost an endemic form, for its remains have been found in a similar state of preservation and associated with 22 Güldenstädt, 'Nov. Comment. Acad. Petrop.,' tom. xx., pro anno

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Mr. Blyth, the inhabitants of Delhi and of some other great cities are eager fanciers. Mr. Layard informs me that most of the known breeds are kept in Ceylon. In China, according to Mr. Swinhoe of Amoy, and Dr. Lockhart of Shangai, carriers, fantails, tumblers, and other varieties are reared with care, especially by the bonzes or priests. The Chinese fasten a kind of whistle to the tail-feathers of their pigeons, and as the flock wheels through the air they produce a sweet sound. In Egypt the

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(excepting the black stripe down the back) with the C. mesomelas of South Africa. Mr. E. Layard informs me that he has seen a Caffre dog which closely resembled an Esquimaux dog. In Australia the Dingo is both domesticated and wild; though this animal may have been introduced aboriginally by man, yet it must be considered as almost an endemic form, for its remains have been found in a similar state of preservation and associated with 22 G ldenst dt, 'Nov. Comment. Acad. Petrop.,' tom. xx., pro anno 1775

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inhabitants of Delhi and of some other great cities are eager fanciers. Mr. Layard informs me that most of the known breeds are kept in Ceylon. In China, according to Mr. Swinhoe of Amoy, and Dr. Lockhart of Shangai, carriers, fantails, tumblers, and other varieties are reared with care, especially by the bonzes or priests. The Chinese fasten a kind of whistle to the tail-feathers of their pigeons, and as the flock wheels through the air they produce a sweet sound. In Egypt the late Abbas

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great cities are eager fanciers. Mr. Layard informs me that most of the known breeds are kept in Ceylon. In China, according to Mr. Swinhoe of Amoy, and Dr. Lockhart of Shangai, carriers, fantails, tumblers, and other varieties are reared with care, especially by the bonzes or priests. The Chinese fasten a kind of whistle to the tail-feathers of their pigeons, and as the flock wheels through the air they produce a sweet sound. In Egypt the late Abbas Pacha was a great fancier of fantails. Many

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History 13: 157. PDF] B —— Layard 14/63 wild Gallus Stanlyii fight most desperately over the male [Layard, Edgar Leopold. 1854. Notes on the ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an eight years' residence in the island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 14: 57-64. PDF] I —— 1848 1/379 Doubleday on difference in degrees of development of front feet in 2 sexes of Butterflies, in neuration of wings - very curious inexplicable. [Doubleday, Edward. 1848. On the pterology of the diurnal

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, Norfolk Island, Ascension, probably at Madeira, on the shores of Scotland, and, as is asserted, on the banks of the Hudson in North America.18 But how different is the case, when we turn 18 With respect to feral pigeons—for Juan Fernandez, see Bertero in 'Annal. des Sc. Nat.,' tom. xxi. p. 351. For Norfolk Island, see Rev. E. S. Dixon in the 'Dovecote,' 1851, p. 14, on the authority of Mr. Gould. For Ascension I rely on MS. information given me by Mr. Layard. For the banks of the Hudson, see Blyth in

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domestic breeds, namely, the Game-fowl. It is a significant fact, that almost all the naturalists in India, namely, Sir W. Elliot, Mr. S. N. Ward, Mr. Layard, Mr. J. C. Jerdon, and Mr. Blyth,25 who are familiar with G. bankiva, believe that it is the parent of most or all our domestic breeds. But even if it be admitted that G. bankiva is the parent of the Game breed, yet it may be urged that other wild species have been the parents of the other domestic breeds; and that these species still

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figured on some of the Babylonian cylinders, of which Mr. Layard sent me an impression, between the sixth and seventh centuries B.C.; and on the Harpy Tomb in Lycia, about 600 B.C.: so that we may feel pretty confident that the fowl reached Europe somewhere near the sixth century B.C. It had travelled still farther westward by the time of the Christian era, for it was found in Britain by Julius Cæsar. In India it must have been domesticated when the Institutes of Manu were written, that is

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different conditions, both under nature and domestication, have varied in nearly the same manner. Mr. Layard informs me that he has observed amongst the Caffres of South Africa a dog singularly like an arctic Esquimaux dog. Pigeons in India present nearly the same wide diversities of colour as in Europe; and I have seen chequered and simply barred pigeons, and pigeons with blue and white loins, from Sierra Leone, Madeira, England, and India. New varieties of flowers are continually raised in different

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breed. Ceylon possesses a fowl peculiar to the island, viz. G. Stanleyii; this species approaches so closely (except in the colouring of the comb) to the domestic fowl, that Messrs. E. Layard and Kellaert16 would have considered it, as they inform me, as one of the parent-stocks, had it not been for its singularly different voice. This bird, like the last, crosses readily with tame hens, and even visits solitary farms and ravishes them. Two hybrids, a male and female, thus produced, were found

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fowls. That the fowl has become feral on several islands is certain. Mr. Fry, a very capable judge, informed Mr. Layard, in a letter, that the fowls which have run wild on Ascension had nearly all got back to their primitive colours, red and black cocks, and smoky-grey hens. But unfortunately we do not know the colour of the poultry which were turned out. Fowls have become feral on the Nicobar Islands (Blyth in the 'Indian Field,' 1858, p. 62), and in the Ladrones (Anson's Voyage). Those found in

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spoken of this breed as a distinct species; had he examined the deformed state of the os coccyx he would never have come to this conclusion; he was probably misled by the statement, which may be found in some works, that tailless fowls are wild in Ceylon; but this statement, as I have been assured by Mr. Layard and Dr. Kellaert, who have so closely studied the birds of Ceylon, is utterly false. The tarsi vary considerably in length, being relatively to the femur considerably longer in the Spanish

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that the dogs of the Bosjemans present a striking resemblance even in colour (excepting the black stripe down the back) with the C. mesomelas of South Africa. Mr. E. Layard informs me that he has seen a Caffre dog which closely resembled an Esquimaux dog. In Australia the Dingo is both domesticated and wild; though this animal may have been introduced aboriginally by man, yet it must be considered as almost an endemic form, for its remains have been found in a similar state of preservation and

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the parent of the most typical of all the domestic breeds, namely, the Game-fowl. It is a significant fact, that almost all the naturalists in India, namely, Sir W. Elliot, Mr. S. N. Ward, Mr. Layard, Mr. J. C. Jerdon, and Mr. Blyth,25 who are familiar with G. bankiva, believe that it is the parent of most or all our domestic breeds. But even if it be admitted that G. bankiva is the parent of the Game breed, yet it may be urged that other wild species have been the parents of the other domestic

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of the pea, i. 397-398; double-flowered peas, ii. 168. LAYARD, E. L., resemblance of a Caffre dog to the Esquimaux breed, i. 25, ii. 286; crossing of the domestic cat with Felis Caffra, i. 44; feral pigeons in Ascension, i. 190; domestic pigeons of Ceylon, i. 206; on Gallus Stanleyi, i. 234; on black-skinned Ceylonese fowls, i. 256. LE COMPTE family, blindness inherited in, ii. 78. LECOQ, bud-variation in Mirabilis jalapa, i. 382; hybrids of Mirabilis, i. 393, ii. 169, 265; crossing in plants

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fowl, that Messrs. E. Layard and Kellaert16 would have considered it, as they inform me, as one of the parent-stocks, had it not been for its singularly different voice. This bird, like the last, crosses readily with tame hens, and even visits solitary farms and ravishes them. Two hybrids, a male and female, thus produced, were found by Mr. Mitford to be quite sterile: both inherited the peculiar voice of G. Stanleyii. This species, then, may in all probability be rejected as one of the

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told, the breed had kept true for twenty years; but rumpless fowls often produce chickens with tails.62 An eminent physiologist63 has recently spoken of this breed as a distinct species; had he examined the deformed state of the os coccyx he would never have come to this conclusion; he was probably misled by the statement, which may be found in some works, that tailless fowls are wild in Ceylon; but this statement, as I have been assured by Mr. Layard and Dr. Kellaert, who have so closely

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which are not furnished with spurs, engage during the breeding-season in fierce conflicts. The Capercailzie and 11 Mr. Hewitt in the 'Poultry Book by Tegetmeier,' 1866, p. 137. 12 Layard, 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol. xiv. 1854, p. 63. 13 Jerdon, 'Birds of India,' vol. iii. p. 574. [page] 45 LAW OF BATTLE. CHAP. XIII

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the migrations of man, i. 136. LATOOKA, perforation of the lower lip by the women of, ii. 341. LAURILLARD, on the abnormal division of the malar bone in man, i. 124. LAWRENCE, W., on the superiority of savages to Europeans in power of sight, i. 118; on the colour of negro infants, ii. 318; on the fondness of savages for ornaments, ii. 338; on beardless races, ii. 349; on the beauty of the English aristocracy, ii. 357. LAYARD, E. L., on an instance of rationality in a Cobra, ii. 30; on the