RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent 2: 29-30. CUL-DAR110.B22r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: 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). See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 2: 29-30.
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yellowish or marbled with black. In the Tragops dispar of the same country, the male is bright green, and the female bronze-coloured.48*(44) No doubt the colours of many kinds of some snakes serve as a protection, as the green tree-snakes and the various mottled kinds which live in sandy places; but it is doubtful whether the colours of many kinds, for instance of the common English snake and viper, serve to conceal them; and this is still more doubtful with some of the very elegantly coloured foreign species the many many foreign species which are coloured with extreme elegance.
During the breeding-season their anal scent-glands are in active function.49*(44A) The males, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous; for many have
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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