RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1844.05.10. In a brood of Hybrids between common & China geese. CUL-DAR205.7.108. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.
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May 10th /44/.
In a brood of Hybrids between common & China geese, saw some with black & some with yellow beaks, like one or other parent.— The hybrids from two hatches have interbred again freely — Eyton thinks hybrids & all offspring take after male or female parent, according to their collective ages, taking most after the most vigorous—
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[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 439.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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