On polygamous birds and the pairing of birds. Late singing of males. [see Descent 2: 107.]
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On polygamous birds and the pairing of birds. Late singing of males. [see Descent 2: 107.]
Congratulates CD on testimonials from the savants of Germany and the Netherlands [Nature 15 (1877): 356, 410–12] and generally on his contributions to biology.
Asks if and when CD’s "Variability of organic beings in a state of nature", as projected in 1868 [see Variation 1: 4] is to appear.
[Copy of some rough notes.] References about species. Variations within species.
Thanks CD for his contribution to the memoir of Henslow [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)].
Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.
Pleased with CD’s opinion of the Henslow Memoir [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)]
LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.
Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.