RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.02. The New Zealand Neomorpha. CUL-DAR205.3.170. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.
The brown crayon number '19' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Island endemism: animals.
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Gould. The New Zealand Neomorpha has male & female with very different length of beak. Birds of N. Z most peculiar, not one species common to Australia, but some affinity to Australia & to Polynesia - Many distinct genera, thinks about 60 species -- lowly organised & nocturnal. New Zealand must be a subsided fragment - A Frog lately found. very rare. G. thinks Norfolk Isd part of New Zealand. Many very distinct genera of Birds (mem: 203 close species of Apterix); this shows much extinction, not withstanding 2 or 3 close species of Apterix developed. Compare ornithology of England with N. Zealand: get some list of latter corrected by Gould. No crows or Swallows in N. Zealand. ? Have these been created since isld isolated?
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