RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Galapagos birds from Birds Part 3 No. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. CUL-DAR256.8. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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.


[8a]

p 22. Buzzard (Craxirex Galapagoensis) habits like the Falkland species tone of voice — running — habits

p. 33. owls   allied to short-eared owl of Europe. — smaller & darker.

p. 35. darker than white owl & less closely related also smaller & often darker.

p 39. Progne. not closely allied, to P progne slenderer & smaller — duller less purple—

p 45 & 46. 2 sp Pyrocephalus / Pyrocephalus smaller

48.— Myiobius.

p. 62. 3. Minus.

p. 86 Sylvicola.

p. 99. Geospiza — dry soil — cactus →

106 Doliconyx →

12 [+] 13 [=] 25

[8av]

p. 115. Dove

1. Hiaticula

2 Ardea Herodias

3 Nycticorax — small

4 Totanus N Sp.

5 Pelidna minutilla (smaller)

6 Strepsilas interpres.

7 Zapornia. N. S.

8 Flamingo

9 8 Larus.— N. Sp. duskier

10 9 Megalopterus — (Tern)

11. 10. Frigate birds

[8b]

p. 100 G (1) magnirostris. Charles & Chatham not? James isld

G (2) strenua James & Chatham

G (3) Charles & Chatham.

4 — Charles

5 — James & Chatham

6. — ?

7 James.

8 Chatham

Camarhynchus —  (1) or (9) James

[Camarhynchus] 2 (10) Charles isld.

[illeg] 1

(11) James

― 2 (12) (not James)

Certhidæ (13)
[+] 12 [=] 25

Darwin, C. R. ed. 1838. Birds Part 3 No. 1 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. by John Gould. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.


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