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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Barrington, Experiments and observations on the singing of birds. CUL-DAR84.2.115. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2

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Language of Birds

Hon. Daines Barrington

Phil. Trans 1773 p. 252 The common Hen when she lays an egg "repeats the same note very often, & concludes with the sixth above, which she holds for a longer time"

p. 262 John Hunter found the muscles of the larynx to be stronger in the males than in the females of the singing Birds, which he dissected.

Barrington, Daines. 1773. Experiments and observations on the singing of birds, by the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice Pres. R. S. In a letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 63: 249-291. PDF Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 51, n26: "The Hon. Daines Barrington, 'Philosoph. Transact' 1773, p. 252." and p. 54, n32: "D. Barrington, 'Phil. Transact.' 1773, p. 262."

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