RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1869.02.16. In a whole group of Humming Birds. CUL-DAR84.2.222. 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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Feb. 16 /69/ In a whole group of Humming Birds, it is very curious to observe, as Gould shewed me, that each is characterized by some extraordinary
[insertion:] how many are
[insertion:] [illeg]
ornament, & such ornaments have been carried
[insertion:] also in some of the species are how
to a wonderful extreme; & some can understand then on principle of selection, whatever part first varied, wd by sexual selection be exaggerated, precisely like in our domestic varieties, each peculiarity (the crop in the pouter-pigeons) the hood in the Jacobin, the [illeg] in the Tumbler, the tail feathers in the fan-tail have been exaggerated through main case.
[Right margin:] Birds
[Left margin:] Perhaps p 50 or when [illeg] Humming Birds
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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