RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of White, Natural History Selborne. CUL-DAR85.B125. 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: 106, n6: "On owls, sparrows, and partridges, see White, 'Nat. Hist. of Selborne,' edit. of 1825, vol. i. p. 139."
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Selborne Letter XXIX on excess of male Partridge.
From facts mentioned by White of Selborne it appears that with the Partridge the males must be in considerable excess, & the same fact is said to hold good in Scotland
The Nat. Hist of Selborne Edit. of 1825. Vol. I p. 139
[in margin:] Scraps. Sexual selection
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