RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.08.15. Gould says it was not Swallows at Malta. CUL-DAR205.10.83. 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

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Aug 15/56/ (3)

Gould says it was not Swallows at Madeira Malta but the non-migratory Birds there & elsewhere, which differ slightly in different countries. Then he showed me yellow hammer from [illeg] & other country & Norway, which clearly differed in size & is slightly in colour, as in reddish whiskers &c — So sparrow of Leyden differs from English sparrow.

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He thinks from resemblance in eggs, young, voice, summer plumage that the Grouse of England, is the T. saliceti of Scandinavia. & so our only English Endemic Bird goes. — The above local vars. like Brehm. The migratory Birds do not differ.—

[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 123.]

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