Note; by Charles Robert Darwin or draft text? (lacks beginning)

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Gould showed me the Heliothorax auriculata (a humming-bird) (same remark applicable to other species of genus) in which the female has much longer tail

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Gould remarked to me that all birds of which the males have beautiful plumage delight in displaying it

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Sexual Selection affects ordinary characters Mr Gould showed me two species of Ring Dottrells[?] in one of which male & female alike

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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K[owa]lewsky tells me that the male Tetrao urogallus congregate at certain spot for successive years & make strange crys & fight

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Gould doubts whether male Black-bird sits much on eggs

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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The tail feathers of snipe described Proc Zoolog Soc 1858 - Have I indices?

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Wild male Turkey all feathers erected - tail expanded like fan showing its brown & black transverse bars

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Z[oological] Gardens

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Mr Bartlett after his immense experience with birds of all kinds allows me to state that he is fully convinced that the beauty of the male is admired by female

Note; by Emma Darwin née Wedgwood pp Charles Robert Darwin; written at Z[oological] G[ardens]

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Sexual Selection / The young of Black Australian Swan is nearly black but not quite so black as common swan

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Sexual Selection / Male & female of 2 sp[ecimens] of Marabou[?] Stork do not differ in plumage but female has yellow iris & male has black

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Reeves game-keeper says he has just killed a magpie belonging to nest with young but in 2 days the one bird got a mate

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Very many parrots splendid crimson in large part of body / Buxton / Keeper says Parrots recognise their former friends & Keeper after several months

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Cheer[?] Pheasant P wallichii sexes differ but little - dull-coloured

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Bartlett showed me specimens of male Polyplectron stuffed in position in which he has seen it court female

Note; by [unidentified] pp-and Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Osb[ert] Salvin showed me several Trogons & many differed greatly in colour

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Zoolog[ical] Soc[iety]

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G R Gray says when the male Falcinellus igneus moults under confinement does not assume such brilliant scarlet as is proper to it

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at B[ritish] Mus[eum]

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Gould / The almost invariable rules with Birds as long known is that when sexes are unlike the young male but Mr G has ascertained but has not yet published the singular fact

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mrs Ruck to [Sir Francis Darwin]; note on reverse side

Letter; written at 13, Kensington Park Road, [London]; rest at See DAR 83: 190 Letter from Mrs Ruck to [Sir Francis Darwin]; written at 13, Kensington Park Road, [London]

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Reeves says it has frequently he believes invariably happened that when he has shot one jay of a pair in a day or two another bird has joined & reformed the pair

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Birkbeck has been assured by trustworthy men that if one of Golden Eagle in Scotland is kileed the pair is repaired soon

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Bartlett knows cases of Parrot which always for long time showed great hatred for gentleman (showing prolonged hatred) & he confessed he had accidently thrown down cage / Buxton on Intellect

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Mr Bartlett says if you pull feathers out of neck or head of young [male] Gold Pheasant the proper masculine feathers of collar & top knot are developed as with Blyth & Bullfinch breast

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Toucans / Some skin at base of beak & eyes splendidly coloured & such parts are often coloured as masculine character

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin; written at Z[oological] Gardens

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Rhamphaston swainsonii / Gould speaks "of the extent of variation" in colour "which occurs probably at different seasons

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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