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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1857-1870]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa, etc. CUL-DAR84.2.32. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN2

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Livingstone Travels p. 254. Geese with spurs on wing never seem to use them except in defence of their young (so not probably sexual)

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Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. London: John Murray. Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 47, n16: "For Plectropterus, 'Livingstone's Travels,' p. 254."

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