RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. After giving cases of Buceros & Kitty wren. CUL-DAR205.11.118. 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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After giving cases of Buceros & Kitty wren of allied instinct in groups.— Add.
I will give one more very trifling case just to show that bir small habits go with natural affinity like the very curious habits just abstracted noted.—
On the plains S. of B. Ayres. (Zoology of voyage of Beagle: Birds p. 143) I saw the Xema cirrocephalus, which is a close representation of one black-headed gull (X ridibundus) frequenting the plains far inland, where it was said to breed in marshes, & this latter peculiar habit for gulls is well known to be the habit characteristic of other European species.—
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