RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1866]. Abstract of The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1866 by John Keats Lord. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2019. RN1
NOTE: An abstract dictated by Darwin to Emma Darwin after reading the chapter on Clark's crow by J.K. Lord.
Reproduced with the 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.
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J.K. Lord Naturalist in Vancouver I. 1866 vol. 2 p. 126 – describes the habits of a crow picicorvous Columbianus which has such immense claws that is was thought to be rapacious in its habits; but uses its strong feet to seize the cones of fir trees & with its powerful bill extracts the seed.
arboreal Habits [in Darwin's hand]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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