From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
31 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 330
Summary:
Thanks for new case.
Not very well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for new case.
Not very well.
Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;
nuptial plumage.
Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.
Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.
Hybrid Motacilla.
Case of female duck leaving mate to pair with male of another species.
August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.