RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1862.01.23. If asked how curious instinct of Lestris arrived. CUL-DAR205.11.124. 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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Jan. 23/62/ If asked how curious instinct of Lestris arrived: seems impossible to answer but St. John Highlands p. 217 shows that when various gulls are wounded they vomit up prey in quantity— if Lestris aboriginally tried to take fish from gull, & thrashed them they would vomit, (if same habits as now) & thus instinct might have been acquired
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