RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. I hear Juan F. Birds Eustephanus differ in form of beak. CUL-DAR84.2.186. 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: 220.
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variegated green & white, & the young males from the nest are reddish-brown. I hear Juan F. [Fernandez] Birds Eustephanus differ in form of beak; as does a new genus in which the beak is toothed like a merganser with the tip wonderfully Hooked & differs in 2 sexes. -
G. has been told that with Neomorpha the male tears off bark of tree for female to feed on larvae.
Campylopterus hemileucurus, do not know what to think of Salvin saying ♀ in excess. The male has beak intense blue & far more splendid than female
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