RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Plantain-eaters or Musophagæ. CUL-DAR84.2.181. 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).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 171.
[181]
After considerably enquiring I can find no group of considerable size, in which the sexes are brightly coloured & both alike except the Plantain-eaters or Musophagæ - in which this does occur it does not hold good with Capitonidæ or Toucans.
Mergus merganser the male more highly coloured than female.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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