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N.B. (Isl^ds springing up more likely to have different species than those sinking, because arrival of any one plant might make condition in any one is^ld different).—

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p. 414. dogs of New Zealand of large size, resemble chien-loup.— cross, black & white, ears short & straight — do not bark.
p. 433 birds & bats have certainly travelled from East Indies. Is^ld as far as Oualan.— wide space of sea. The East of America would account for this.— Coquille Voyage

Says no reptiles p. 460 & very doubtful whether any birds Except Dodo !! — in Mauritius

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Lesson & p. 620 Centropus (Coucal) of Java & Philippines has variety at Madagascar, Calcutta & Sumatra, but I do not see how it is known that they are varieties & not species.—

Vol. I. 694. Kingfisher of Europe (Alcedo ispida) from Moluccas scarcely differs at all from those of Europe, but beak rather sharper & rather longer in proportion, colour slightly different. Who can say whether species or varieties.
p. 708. Columba Oceanica (Less.) inhabits Caroline

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NB. The isl^d (perhaps Philippines & perhaps Friendly Isles & Hebrids) is very closely allied to C. muscadivora, which lives in the Eastern Moluccas. New Guinea.— (Case of replacement).

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The Casuary inhabits Ceram, Borneo & especially New Guinea (replaces Emeu) in North of New Holland.—
New Guinea scarcely differs more from Van Diemen's Land Australia more than Van Diemen's land.—

Vol. II p. 8 no snakes on isles of central Pacific, yet there appears to be one at Botouma from account of natives, & probably on Oualan. Mitchell¹ says snakes on Friendly isles, p. 50 LX Journal of Silliman. Study Silliman

¹ American Journal of Science and Arts, vol. 10, no. I, 1825, Zoology, Art. VI, letter from Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, of New York, to Dr. Godman of Philadelphia, p. 50 : "circumstantial description of a two-headed serpent I received from one of the Fejee islands".

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Vol. II p. 10 it seems that crocodile was washed on shore at one of the Pellew isl^ds — killed a woman.¹ Chamisso² p. 189 Tome III Kotzebue.— p. 22 a Gecko on St. Helena.³ — in 1813 a enormous snake was one Gecko on Isle of France Scincus multilineatus (p. 45) Moluccas & New S. Wales.
Scincus cyanurus p. 8 & p. 49 on all the Moluccas New Guinea & New Ireland & even Java & very common on Otaheite according to Quoy & Gaimard⁴ stated in note to p. 21 in Sandwich isl^d & according to Chamisso on Radack isl^d.—
p. 69 Shark very generally distributed: Mem. of great geological age.— Gastrobranchus only two species, one in Northern Hemisphere 2^nd in southern,
— p. 71 Chimera antarctica caught Chile, Van Diemen's land & Cape of Good Hope.
p. 44 of this Note Book. also the Taeniatole austral

¹ Lesson et Garnot, op. cit., tome 2, p. 10.
² Adelbert von Chamisso, in Otto von Kotzebue, Voyage into the South Sea, London 1821. From the volume and page numbers that he cited, Darwin appears to have used a French edition of this work.
³ Lesson et Garnot, op. cit., tome 2, p. 22.
⁴ ibid., tome 2, p. 21, where Quoy and Gaimard, and Chamisso, are quoted.

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? Europe has many species but not genera distinct from rest of world ???
Lyells Principles must be abstracted & answered.
Much might be argued what is not cause of destruction of large quadrupeds.— common to these types of animals.
What reptiles coexisted with Palaeotherium in Paris quarries & at Binstead. Mem. recent crocodile with Palaeotherium in India — : connection with Latitudes ! ?

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Zoological Journal.—

Vol. I p. 81 Capromys.¹ West Indian isl^d
p. 120 ref. Philosoph. Transacts 1823 (Read June 5^th) important paper by Dillwyn,² on replacement of Cephalopoda & Trachilidous Molluscs by each other in secondary & Tertiary periods.—

p. 125 ref. to Phil. Transacts, (read November 20^th) Paper by Jenner³ on birds seen far at sea, migrations of species, geese killed in Newfoundland with crops full of maize, (get limits of latter from Barton.— swifts return after years to nests.

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Vol. II p. 49 on the localities of certain parrots habitations India & Africa.⁴ — N.B. Any monograph like Gould⁵ on Trogons worth studying.—

¹ Anselm Gaëtan Desmarest, "Abstract of a Memoir on a new genus of the order Rodentia, named Capromys ", originally published in Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, tome I, 1823.
² L. W. Dillwyn, "On fossil shells ", originally published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, London vol. 113, 1823, p. 393.
³ Edward Jenner, "Some observations on the migration of birds ", originally published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, London, vol. 114, 1824, p. 11,
⁴ N. A. Vigors, "Sketches in ornithology : or observat ions on the leading affinities of some of the more exclusive groups of birds".
⁵ John Gould, Monograph of the Trogonidae, London, 1835-8.