RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. S[clater] could think of no groups where there was gaudy colouring. CUL-DAR84.1.104. 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: 79, n70: "Mr. Sclater, 'Intellectual Observer,' Jan. 1867."
[104]
S could think of no groups where there was gaudy colouring in which in all cases that males & females were alike.
[104v]
are both gaudy [5 words excised] are more contrasted, the browns & greys being often replaced by jet black –
Except in a few genera of the gaudy Toucans Family do not differ in plumage or in colours of beak. – Sclater doubts whether in spur-wing birds females are ever destitute of spurs.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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