RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Baird, Report on American ornith exped 1853-1856 and Blyth, Catalogue of birds of Asiatic Museum at Calcutta. CUL-DAR205.7.142. 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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Baird's Report on American Ornithological Expedition of 1853-6) — 1858) — vol XI Splendid case of crossed woodpeckers, when they meet beautifully distend spurs & Blyth Coracias, which Sclater says are good species in eyes of every entomologist

Blyth Catalogue of Birds of As. Museum at Calcutta 1849

p 244. Emplocomus graduated vars.

do do p. 51. on Coracias. — mingling.—

The genus Emplocomus — at Zoolog. Soc. & have bred largely & have crossed & the crossed Birds have been distributed so that we shall know →

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if these Hybrids breed in England—

So with Ph. Colchicus & torquatus.

These facts especially the woodpecker of which the details are amply given, excellent to show crossing of species in nature.

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