RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [print of woodcut of feathers of Selasphorus platycerus, male and female]. CUL-DAR84.2.83-84. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2025. 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: 46.


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Selasphorus platycerus

Selasphorus platycerus


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