RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Desmarest and Richardson. CUL-DAR83.67. 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).


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(Desmarest, Encyclop. Method.)

C 189 female otter female darker

217 Lioness Head smaller

C 219 young tigress colour less decided & obscure

C 223 ♀ ocelot ♀ less strongly coloured

238 seal female no trunk

243 - ♀ different & young

246 – [otter] difference by age

248 - Sea-lion mane

249 - female different

250 - young differ

253 Moose - canines, upper

C 256. Didelphis female redder little

267 young Phalanger, differ from 2 adult which are alike

304 rat - ♀ paler a little than ♂

387 Male Hippotamus fight

C 410 female tapir lighter colour

421 Feral Horse on Pampas fight (see Azara) Camels & Guanacoes have canines (I suppose both sexes) Moschus do

429 some ♂ 434 deer longer canine in upper jaw

C 433 Cervus wapiti female less dark

C 436 Avis female with white line on flank Kids in some cases different

445 Cervus female Horned? odour campestris ♀ hardly any odour

450 ♀ giraffes young lighter coloured

C 451 C Antelope cervicapra female lighter than ♂

455 Horns Ant sub-[illeg] - no ♂canines in ♀ Brosses

455 - ant: enchæra ♀ smaller Horns

CC 468 colour of ant cacoma in ♀ - lines & smaller brown instead of black

470 colours

476 smaller Horns or Hornless

881 Capra ibex ♀ Horns smaller

C 482 ― ægagrus ♀ do is paler coloured

484 - in dom. vars. absent in ♀ in some vars.

487 Ovis montana ♀ Horns smaller in ♀

488 O. [illeg] do much smaller O. -[illeg] do do

493 Ovibos mane - see Richardson for sexes Bos Americana do

498 [Aurok] mane less in ♀

Narwhal is one in size see Penny Encyclop is it sexual

Narwhal or Monodon: nothing said about sexes in Penny Encyclop - see Scoresby or Dict. Class.

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Richardson Fauna Bor. America Mammals p.

p 278 Ovibos moschatus, female with smaller Q horns, with bases nor touching; hair on throat & chest shorter. [Descent 2: 247]

p 283 Bos Americanus or Bison cow with smaller head & shorter hairs on fore parts.


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