The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Macgillivray, A History of British birds. CUL-DAR84.2.49. 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: 228-9, n54: "On Larus, Gavia, and Sterna, see Macgillivray, 'Hist. Brit. Birds,' vol. v. p. 515, 584, 626."

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p 436 Shearwaters young grey

509 Ivory gull do variegated

525 Larus do.

515 Head & neck of gulls gets pure white in summer

525 (Larus) Head & neck streaks with brown in winter, in summer, pure white

584 Gavia in winter head light coloured, in summer generally deep-grey, brown or black.

622 Terns young mottled with grey.

626 666} Terns Head black in summer & other cases

(I may use gulls & terns as an instance of the young in the fine plumage & of the adults of both sexes in the winter resembling each other to a large extent; & differing from the adults in summer.)

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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)