A29

         [in another hand:] Birds

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Digitis membranis destitutis 2

[Digits devoid of membranes]

Digitis per totam longitudinem auctis membranis

[Digits with membranes extended along the entire length]

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Cruribus ad calcaneum usque plumosis; digitis quatuor 3

[With legs feathered down to the heels; with four toes]

Cruribus in parte inferiore plumis destitutis 6

[The legs are devoid of feathers on the lower part]

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Omnibus usque ad exortum aut circiter discretis 4

Medius trium anteriorum cum extimo trium articulorum spatio, intimo primi tantum articuli intervallo arcte cohaerente; viz Rupicola

[The middle of the three anterior joints closely adheres to the outermost space of the three joints, with the innermost space of only the first joint]

Manacus, Ispida, Todus, Apiaster, Hydrocorax,—

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Tribus antice, uno postico 5

Duobus antice, totidem postici,- Torquilla, Picus, Galbula, Bucco, Cuculus, Trogon, Crotophagus, Psittacus, Tucana,-

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Rostro recto; mandibulae superioris apice crassiori

[remainder not transcribed]

A29v

Digitis tribus anticis,

[With three fingers in front]

[remainder not transcribed]

Copied from Brissons Ornithologie. 4th Edit. P. 24.—

N. B.- The Colymbus  in the 8th Lect. Is the Podiceps of Linneaus.

April. 1826.—

Reference:

Mathurin Jacques Brisson. 1760. Ornithologie ou Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, espèces & leur variétés à laquelle on a joint une description exacte de chaque espèce, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils leur ont donnés, ceux que leur ont donnés les différentes nations & les noms vulgaires. Paris: Ad Ripam Augustinorum, apud Cl. Joannem-Baptistam Bauche, bibliopolam, ad Insigne S. Genovesae, & S. Joannis in Deserto. Volume 4. There was no 4th edition of Brisson's work, Darwin was quoting from volume 4.

Darwin refers to Robert Jameson's Edinburgh University lectures on natural history.