RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Blyth, Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds. CUL-DAR205.11.65. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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.
Blyth, Ed. Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 14: 173-212.
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Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. Vol XIV (1845).
(p. 210.) "Notices & Description of Birds by E. Blyth" refers to Mag. of Nat. History 1834.
p. 463 et sequ. on nest of common Swift by Mr Selwyn Seem to look at it as certain that all are formed by secretion fr salivary glands. — They all belong to Cypselinæ. All this also make edible nests —
(I had better put my remarks in note)
(says swallow are earth-castings)
Nothing about chemical analysis)
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