The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Cyanecula Suecica Red-throated Blue-breast. CUL-DAR84.2.179. 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).

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Cyanecula Suecica Red-throated Blue-breast} ♂ fine blue breasted edged beneath with black, edged within pale with central sub-triangular mark of fine Red - ♀ with dull mottled space corresponding with the blue, enclosing pale fulvous mark in centre prolonged up the throat by a streak; so that marks approximately transferred to ♀ but not the bright colours - Nests deep but open in ground, very difficult to detect. But I rather doubt whether such case common

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Moustache pale blue [few words illeg]

Cebus hypoleucus - forehead

white throated [illeg] - laughs

Pithecia satanas var - negro forehead Hair like child

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)