RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Sclater, White-whiskered Lemur. CUL-DAR83.85. 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: 290, n: "Sclater, 'Proc. Zool. Soc.' 1866, p. 1. The same fact has also been fully ascertained by MM. Pollen and van Dam."

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Capital case of Lemur in late number of Zoolog. Proceeding. Male is coal-black

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Some feathers, female brown – (see [illeg] I doubt)

Two sexes

I see as a general rule when male & female

[few words excised] the colours in the male

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