RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Hume, Notes on ornithology of India. CUL-DAR205.11.131. 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.

Hume, Allan. 1869. Notes on ornithology of India. Ibis 5, series 2, no. 17 (Jan.): 1-20.


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Ibis 69. p. 7. Mr A. Hume remarks "it has always appeared to me confirmatory of Mr D.s views, that representative species, in far distant countries, build nests so similar in design & class of materials, that it is difficult to doubt that all derive their architecture from a common ancestor."

Mr A Hume has recently remarked, as confirmatory of the views maintained by me

Wd Wallace account for this by tradition?!


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