Fauna
Found in 1506 Collections and/or Records:
Birds-132 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin or draft text? (lacks beginning)
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Birds-136 Note, 1860-01-27
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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Birds-137 Note, 1861-04-19
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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Birds-139 Note, 1866-04-29
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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Birds-140 Note, 1867-08-21
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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Birds-141 Note, 1867-12-05
Mr Gould doubts whether male Black-bird sits much on eggs
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Birds-142 Note, 1867-12-05
The tail feathers of snipe described Proc Zoolog Soc 1858 - Have I indices?
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Birds-143 Note, 1868-03-27
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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Birds-144 Note, 1809-03-28 - 1882-03-28
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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Birds-146 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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Birds-147 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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Birds-148 Note, 1868-02-25
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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Birds-149 Note, 1868-11-11
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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Birds-150 Note, 1868-11-11
Cheer[?] Pheasant P wallichii sexes differ but little - dull-coloured
Note; by Charles Robert Darwin
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Birds-151 Note, 1868-11-11
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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Birds-153 Note, 1868-03-23
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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Birds-154 Note, 1868-03-23
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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Birds-155 Note, 1868-03-24
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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Birds-157 Letter, 1869-01-01 - 1869-05-28
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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Birds-158 Note, 1868-04-08
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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Birds-159 Note, 1868-04-30
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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Birds-163 Note, 1868-11-07
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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Birds-164 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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Birds-165 Note, 1868-11-03
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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Birds-166 Note, 1809-01-01 - 1882-04-30
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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