RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1868.03.24. Size of Hybrids. CUL-DAR205.7.270. 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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Size of Hybrids

March 24 /68. Gould showed me hybrids between Phasianus versicolor & colchicus— & latter to torquatus & larger than either parent— splendid Birds—

[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 432.]

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