RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.12.14. Hybrid from (Pouter Fantail) x (Runt-Trumpeter).CUL-DAR205.7.184. 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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Dec 14th. 57/ Hybrid from (Pouter Fantail) X (Runt-Trumpeter) 1 feathered legged mottled brown & white— tail all brown—/ The other chiefly white, but with blue & distinct part of 1 double black bars on two wings— tail blue with bar at end & outer edging white of bars of caudal. — not feathered-legged
Cross from Barb & Fantail all black 15 caudals. —
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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