RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. If female Pheasant for instance had been rendered dull by protection. CUL-DAR84.2.163-164. 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).
[163]
If female Pheasant for instance had been rendered dull by protection - why shd young always be dull, whilst young of very many birds are bright, which seem to infer protection during incubation at least, for they generally build in Holes or domed nests
[164]
when plumage differs or in embryonic always duller, which shows that ancestors dull-birds
Nemophila
Crossed - Self
28 1/2 [fight]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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