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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, etc. CUL-DAR84.2.175. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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

Charles and David Livingstone. 1865. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864. London.

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Livingstone expedition to the Zambesi 1865

P. 66 A Nightjar (Cometornis vexillarius) is only 10 inches long & in November the male has a couple of feathers 26 inches in length in each wing. These feathers greatly retard its flight for at other times it flies with greatest rapidity.

[Descent 2: 73, n64: "Livingstone, 'Expedition to the Zambesi,' 1865, p. 66."]

P. 425. The little black weaver congregates in a small party of 3 or 4 on bushes round a small plain, and sings & glides with quivering wings which make a rapid whirring sound like a child's rattle. One by one they thus perform for hours but only during the courting season. Author (Jerdon about Bustards)

[Descent 2: 63, n51: "On the Weavers, 'Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi,' 1865, p. 425."]

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