RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lloyd, Game birds of Sweden, etc. CUL-DAR82.B38. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 9, n13: "'Game Birds of Sweden,' &c., 1867, p. 466."


[B38]

L. Lloyd. Game Birds of Sweden &c. 1867 p. 466

(In regard to the)

The Cottus scorpius or sea scorpion : "the male is much smaller & more slenderly shaped than the♀; & there is, freshwater also, as L. says there is a great difference in colour, base to nose (so that the  fishermen sometimes imagine them to be different species). It is very difficult [illeg] (for any one, who


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