RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on web-feet of frigate birds]. CUL-DAR205.1.16. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
NOTE: Darwin here refers to a remark in wrote in his Ornithological notes.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.1 contains notes on rudimentary organs.
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In Catalogue of Birds I see I have remark (I know not whether introduced in Journal.) about web-feet of Frigate birds, which like inland – longlegged geese can be of no use to it – like mammæ wings under seldom case. &c &c
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These, perhaps, are organs, not abortive yet not of use or rather not of necessity - So tail of woodpecker on plains.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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