RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.06.15. Hybrid Barb male Fantail female. CUL-DAR205.7.181. 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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1857
Hybrid Barb♂Fantail ♀X Barb♂- spot ♀
June 15 2 young ones all over pale brownish dun— the other turn-crowned— snow white except several middle feathers of tail & few upper & lower tail-coverts reddish-brown dun.
How like grandmother on one side
Both birds 12 caudals
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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