RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Whitear, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 1822. CUL-DAR205.6.13. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR205.6 contains notes on embryology [pigeons].
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Linn. Trans. XIII. p. 615. Mr. Whitear reared some young of the shoveller duck (A clypeata) from the egg "their bills, when a few days old, were not longer than those of th domestic Duck, but at age of 3 weeks they had obviously increased in length more than those of the common duck."
[William Whitear. 1822. Communicated on 7 March 1820. XXIX. Extracts from the minute-book of the Linnean Society of London. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 615.]
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