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 (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: 51, n26: "The Hon. Daines Barrington, 'Philosoph. Transact' 1773, p. 252." and p. 54, n32: "D. Barrington, 'Phil. Transact.' 1773, p. 262."
Daines Barrington. 1773. Experiments and observations on the singing of birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 63: 249-291.
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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.
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