RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The case of sexes alike, but ♀ not acquiring full plumage till later in life very important. CUL-DAR84.2.22. 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: 179-80.
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The case of sexes alike, but ♀ not acquiring full plumage till later in life very important, as showing that the acquirement – [illeg] connected with inheritance or transmission & not [illeg]
(Parrot's Beak - oriole - I think Audubon has cases and I think Gould)
Platalea – [Ibis] - Swinhoe?
[p. 180, n29: "On the Platalea, 'Ibis,' vol. vi. 1864, p. 366."]
[Robert Swinhoe. 1868. Descriptions of four new species of Formosan birds; with further notes on the Ornithology of the island.]
The above facts rather show that there is some tendency for the beauty not to be transmitted to female.
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