RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1840]. Abstract of Hodgson, Description of two new species belonging to a new form of the Meruline Group of Birds, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.36. 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.
B. H. Hodgson. 1836. Description of two new species belonging to a new form of the Meruline Group of Birds, with indication of their generic character. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5 (June): 358-65.
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this appears chief character of old world— not so much split into divisions.—
Vol V. Journal of Asiatic Soc p. 363. A fishing owl is described by Mr Hodgson— naked tarsi & cultivated talons; now my S. American owl, with fish in stomach, or crab sometimes eats crabs— sometimes catching fish crabs — habit leading to this formation of such species —
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