RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Jerdon, Birds of India. CUL-DAR84.2.145-146. 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: 65, 134.
[145]
Jerdon B. of I. vol. III.
p 517. Ceriornis (or Tragopan or Ceratornis) satyra ♀ "with faint white lines on upper back & wing-coverts, being the representative of the white ocelli of the male"
Argus Pheasant
[Descent 2: 134, n46: "Jerdon, 'Birds of India,' vol. iii. p. 517."]
[146]
The male alone of Sypheotides auritus (one of the Bustards, Jerdon Birds of India vol. 3. p. 621) has the primary quills acuminated, whether this has any connection with the Humming noise made by the allied species (p 618) when courting the female, I know not
[Descent 2: 65, n54: "Jerdon, 'Birds of India,' vol. iii. p. 618, 621."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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