RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Blaine, Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, etc. CUL-DAR205.10.43. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Blaine, Delabere P. 1840. An Encyclopedia of Rural Sports; or, a complete account, historical, practical and descriptive, of hunting, shooting, fishing, racing, and other field sports of the présenté day. London: Longman etc.
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Ency. Rur. Sp. p. 448 Naturalists describe 3 varieties of [text excised] the common Fox, the greyhound Fox, mastiff Fox & one fox.— "There are certainly seen tall gaunt foxes, other lower and stouter & others still smaller; but he thinks not fixed herds varieties, but effects of situation; as the woodland here is thicker than those which inhabit upland & champagne countries.
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[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 120.]
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