RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Osbert, On the tail-feathers of Momotus, 1873. CUL-DAR89.156. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 60. n94: "I shall hereafter have occasion to refer to Mr. Salvin's interesting case of the apparently inherited effects of mot-mots biting off the barbs of their own tail-feathers. See also on the general subject 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii., pp. 22-24."
Osbert Salvin. 1873. On the tail-feathers of Momotus. Received 1 April, 1873. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, part 2: 429-433.
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Proc. Z. Soc. 73 Part II. p. 431. Motmots tail S.S. & Man bears on plucking out Beard.
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