RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on birds, Asia and Brazil]. CUL-DAR84.2.139. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2020. RN1

NOTE: In Emma Darwin's hand. 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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Gould's Birds of Asia Vol. 1

Otis Macqueenii, male alone plumed-nectaria male has long tail splendidly coloured. –

Muscipeta paradisii. Males & female plumed & both [C.D.] with very long ornamental tail; but male white except head & edges to

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S. doubts about the males incubating, the case of the Casuarinus may be variable & male ostritch has more contrasted colour than the female

The Bell-bird of Brazil described by Sclater in the Intellectual Observer Jan. 67. [p. 406]

[P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., secretary to the Zoological Society of London.]

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