The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. CUL-DAR205.11.80. 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.

Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London.

Darwin recorded reading and abstracting this work in his Books Read / Books to be Read notebook. Text CUL-DAR128.-: "1858 Ap. 12. Livingstone Travels (the best Travels I ever read)"

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Livingstone's Travels p. 613. The red-beaked Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) the male builds up the female in a hole in a tree, allowing only just room for it to insert its own beak so as to feed it & young. — remains immured for 2 to 3 month — So I have read in India.— good to quote after about Kitty wrens.— Ch. 10

p. 614 The excreta were expelled a full yard from orifice of nest "& often proven a means of discovering the retreat ". The female & young eagerly sought for food by natives.—

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