Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
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Asks if CD would like to subscribe to a reprint of Edward Blyth’s Field articles on cranes.
Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
Points out errata in Descent.
WBT’s beard exceptional in that it is darker than his hair [see Descent 2: 319].
Sends Field with an account of the cat show; examples of cats with three extra toes.
Sexual preference of a blue turbit.
CD did not return skull of the horned cock figured in Variation [1: 265].
Has found the skull of the horned cock.
With regard to CD’s suggestion about the possibility of producing a pigeon breed with differently coloured sexes, WBT reports the results of crossing blue and silver dragons; the silver offspring are almost always hens.
Would like the latest edition of the Origin.
Encloses notes on volume one [of Descent].
Encloses a photograph showing the bleaching effect of the sun’s rays on dun feathers in pigeons.
Gives the answers of two of the best dog breeders to CD’s queries.