RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1856]. Peacock & Guinea Fowl Hybrid Mr Mitchell has seen at Amsterdam. CUL-DAR205.7.120. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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. David William Mitchell (1813-1859). See CUL-DAR205.7.123

This was mistranscribed in the CUL catalogue as "Peacock & Grouse First".

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Peacock & Guinea Fowl Hybrid Mr. Mitchell has seen.
at Amsterdam

[See Natural selection, p. 435.]

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