RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1860.01.27. Ch 10 / Gould tells me that Cuculus taitensis. CUL-DAR205.11.114. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.

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Ch 10

Jan 27/60 Gould tells me that Cuculus Taitensis migrates from New Zealand n. to unknown land, as perhaps (he does not dispute) C. lucidus according to Colenso— But neither of these Cuckoos found in Australia.— So we have here case of migration to Islands.—

[Natural selection, p. 495: "Colenso asserts (Tasmanian Journal vol. 2. p 227) that a cuckoo, Cuculus lucidus is migratory, remaining only 3 or 4 months in New Zealand; but New Zealand is so large an island that it may easily migrate to the south & remain then quite unknown to the natives of the North."]

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