From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr–June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 146
Summary:
On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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On domestication of pigeons and hybrid geese.
He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.
Behaviour of Malay hens.