RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. In all the Heron-tribe many ornaments plume & fimbriated feathers. CUL-DAR84.2.19. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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: 82-3.

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In all the Heron tribe many ornaments plumes & fimbriated feathers, I believe not sexual –

Nycticorax griseus - night-heron, with long single shaft to back of head not only ♂ of Bernicla antarctica almost snow white, but the male of Chloephaga magellanica much whiter than ♀ - good contrast with black ducks.

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