RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. No of seed Legitimate / Illegitimate [calculations]. CUL-DAR109.B114. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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 volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).

B114

No of seed Legitimate          No of seed Illegitimate

Long-styled
Mid styled

[calculations]

B114v

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Birds. Chap 13

from a female the males begin to fight furiously, and the weaker give way; but then, according to Audubon, both the victors and vanquished seach for the female, so that the females either must either then exert some a choice, or the battle must be n renewed. So again with one of the starlings of the same country United States (Sturnus ludovicianus) the males engage in fierce conflicts, "but at the sight of a female, they all fly after her as if mad." *24

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