RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.12. Yarrell / Saw larynx of wild duck & common duck. CUL-DAR205.7.201. 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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Yarrell Dec. 1841
Saw windpipe larynx of wild duck & common Duck & of muscovy & of hybrid between two latter — it seemed intermediate, but more like that of male of mother tame duck, than to that its father than the muscovy. — Females have not the enlarged larynx or body cavity — so that the hybrid has this male character. —
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