From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 38–9
Summary:
On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.
Geese do not commonly sift water through their bills for food, as they feed on land. A few have well-developed lamellae for sifting. Will have his son check at Zoological Garden.
Reports aggressive reactions of three kinds of porcupines to a snake, concluding that in the wild they would probably kill and eat it [see Expression, pp. 93–4]