RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1863.02.10. Bartlett assures me that Cormorants Gannets & Herons are sick when frightened. CUL-DAR205.11.125. 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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Feb. 10/63/ Bartlett assures me that Cormorants, Gannets & Herons are sick when frightened, shows peculiarity common & not acquired from Lestris— man who keeps gull says positively that gulls are sick up when frightened.— Lestris [dives] I believe only (see Macgillivray) by causing sickness—
Fishing Eagle with fish— We see how could be acquired.—
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