RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Home, Some account of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed. CUL-DAR205.5.107. 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-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
Everard Home. 1817. Some account of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 107, issue 107 (December): 332-8.
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Phil. Transact 1817 p. 336 —
Sir E. Home shows that Java swallows form their nest from peculiar secretion of stomach — says it stands isolated —
Bees wax nearest approach — ⸮ Do not common swallows moisten mud with their own saliva?? —The Java swallows on coast do not exhaust their secretion in making their nests.—
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