The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Birds Sexual Selection. CUL-DAR84.2.172. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2

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).

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Birds Sexual Selection

Swinhoes cases (if I understand) of certain Herons (& Blyth has case) which have adult plumage like the young of other species in some argument that in all cases the plumage of the young shows as the plumage of a progenitor — that our Robins are descended from birds like young Robins.

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in contrast with what

See if the changes which the several races dogs underwent during the period period of the sucessive & Egyptian mummies; & their [illeg]

which until recently afforded the most ancient record of the dog animal —

& in contrast with our existing dogs;

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