RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Desmarest, Mammalogie, ou, Description des espèces de mammifères. CUL-DAR83.40. 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: 289.
Desmarest, A.-G. (Anselme-Gaëtan). 1822. Mammalogie, ou, Description des espèces de mammifères. Paris.
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Desmarest. p. 457
Cervicapra 17 sp. ♂ alone Horned.
p 468 Tragelaphus Tragelaphus Horns in this same sub-genus, present or absent in the 2 sexes.
p. 471 Boselaphus Boselaphus (or Strepsiceros) do - sometimes absent in females. -
p 476 Horns smaller in ♀ Antelope rupicapra Chamois
(How equal in same species)
Horns variable in same genera, smaller in female, or absent & so in domestic vars of sheep & goats.
Whole sub-genera with Horns or anthers Horns in ♀s
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