RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Variation under domestication. CUL-DAR193.80. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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 volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).

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Notes on vol. I of Variation—

p. 161— note. In almost all the Trerons the sexes "differ greatly"— See Wallace's article on this subject Ibis 1863, p. 318

[Treron is the genus of green-pigeons. Variation 1: 162: "Mr. Wallace informs me that in the sub-family of the Treronidæ the sexes often differ in vividness of colour." See Wallace, A. R. 1863. Notes on the fruit-pigeons of the genus Treron. Ibis 5 (19): 318-320.]

p. 181— Musk-duck is Cairina moschata (not Dendrocygna)— As to its arboreal habits see Salvin Ibis 1859, p. 232

[Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin. On the ornithology of Central America. Part III. Ibis (July 1859): 214-34.]

p 181 of my book &c

p. 181— Columba littoralis.

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