From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 78
Summary:
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.