From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
On the coloration of 26 species of Saharan birds.
Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.