RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Sexual secondary characters arising in Pigeons very odd. CUL-DAR47.52. Edited by John van Wyhe (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. The volume CUL-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.


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Sexual Secondary characters arising in Pigeons very odd as wild aboriginal have it not ─ And odder as paired for life & so not so much struggling — seems clearly accidental in Pigeons — I know of only Pouting.— Wattle in Carrier — Voice in Trumpeter & Laugher

Ch. 7


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