RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Wilson (Jardine's edition). CUL-DAR5.B48. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Catharthes aura is the Turkey vulture.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


[B48]

Nova Scotia extreme range (Wilson's authorJardin's Edition) of Catharthes aura whenever in S. America. Staten land 10º nearer S. Pole – yet a good many instances bear on my theory of climates (compare fruit of N. & S. America)

Catharthes South Carolina 35º on S. America 41º. Island in Wilson not generally same north of Newbern (35º) but then a note is added that they run on banks of lake Erie see what Richardson says. – Most authorities say only in in Southern states)

The migration of tropical species into equalize climate proves that equality is chief element in Tropical climates. – The argument applies chiefly to species & not forms.

I see they range far in N. America


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