RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1859.12.05. A farmer in Yorkshire, who had kept for three years a half-bred. CUL-DAR205.7.147. 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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Ilkley Dec 5 — 59
A farmer in Yorkshire, who had kept for three years a half-bred (possibly quarter-bred) hybrid gander of this nature, assured me that he kept it, because he found he could rear more young geese from this gander bird than from a pure gander.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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