RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Colours most trifling character. CUL-DAR70.54v. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1

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[bird, cat, Curcilio, fly, pig, pigeon, rabbit, silkworm, gooseberry, grass, Hyacinth, mountain ash, nut, parasitic fungus, Pelargonium, rye, Verbena, walnut, Bechstein, Gilbert, Lewis[?], Prichard]

Colour [illeg] Pigs –

Colours most trifling character.

White pigeons – white cats. – White rabbit.

We [illeg] [illeg] flies, genera [illeg] Bechstein - Lewis Prichard

White [illeg], there about colour from most.-

Eyes with blueness colour affect many Verbena & Pelargonium.

White [illeg] [illeg] for [illeg] to [illeg] what fat gaper -

Colour & [illeg] [illeg] plants Black [illeg]. - [illeg]

[illeg] by [illeg] c parasites longer [illeg] to Verbena colour of grapes - colour of silk-worms)

what red Hyacinths

[illeg] fruit trees - colour of flesh. - Curculio

Colour of fruit attractive to birds.- yellow & red very [illeg]. Mountain-Ash. Turkey Rye 2. vars.

Leafing [illeg] of chart.

soft-coloured [illeg] same case peculiarities Zilbert & runt.

White-fruit gooseberry leaves.


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