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, 6.2025. RN2

NOTE: 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). In Emma Darwin's hand with additions by Darwin.


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Gould's Birds of Asia Vol. 1 Otis Rhynch

MacQueenie, male alone plumed — Nectaria male has long tail splendidly coloured.— Muscipeta paradisii. Males & female plumed & both 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.

References:

Gould, John. 1850-1883. The Birds of Asia. 7 vols. London: the author, printed by Taylor and Francis. (Completed after the author's death by R. Bowdler Sharpe)

Sclater, Philip Lutley. 1867. The Bell-birds of America. Intellectual Observer 10 (January) 406-408, 1 pl.


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