RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Hybrid Pintado between common Pheasant & Pintado. CUL-DAR205.7.86. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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.

The brown crayon number '17' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Hybridism.


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Hybrid Pintado between common Pheasant & Pintado lived several years in Garden

{Hybrid between common pheasant & fowl, have rarely been seen to tread, but produced nothing.

{Hybrid between Barnacle & white footed Goose tread inter se no result.

{Hybrid between Penguin & Ægyptian Goose tread inter se, no result—

[Annotate sketch]

I doubt Goldfinches, Linnets, Bullfinches breeding

[Text excised] confinement, yet all have hybridised.—


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