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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.02. Wingless Birds being peculiar to S. Atlantic Islds & New Zealand. CUL-DAR205.3.198. 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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Wingless Birds being peculiar to S. Atlantic Islds & New Zealand, far from proof of former connection, rather I shd think of winged bird, being altered, & no fresh accessions of ??? winged Birds, or quadrupeds which cd injure them.

(∴ Dog not aboriginal in N. Zealand) - Tortoises great powers of survival. No Frogs in Mauritius. A line of old Banks from Laccadive to near Mauritius, no space more than 480 miles - Comoro isld 180 from Africa subsidence. Laccadive isld are I think Persian in their Flora

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)