RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.11.21 Hybrids / Cross from trumpeter. CUL-DAR205.7.178. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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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Cross from Trumpeter ♂ & Spot ♀, as before tail, (except 2 outer on each side) red
2 Birds from Trumpeter white Turbit ♂, Trumpeter ♀
all white feather-legged— but one of the two had very different Beak from other, much shorter & like Turbit. —
2 from Black Barb ♂ & Spot ♀
turn-crowned white all over except a few tail coverts & some caudal white dark, (outer always white); but as these 2 birds are heavily feather-legged, I think may have crossed with Trumpeter ♂
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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