RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Notebook C, p. 105e. CUL-DAR200.3.55. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2023. RN1 First transcribed in de Beer, G. Rowlands, M. J. eds. 1961. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Addenda and corrigenda. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2, No. 6 (October): 185-200. F1574e

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II 105

How remarkable that Turdus Magellanicus in the S. Hemisphere (replaced to the North by other species) should build a nest lined with mud, in forest where not a tree in which it build, a berry on which it feeds or insects it devours is same species, yet that it should so strictly agree in habits with the Turdus Musicus not found in N. America whose southern range is?

One The black & white thrush of Azara builds its nest in [2 words illeg] something same manner, much mud. — These facts show, habits hereditary whilst species have changed.

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