From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9
Summary:
Thanks CD for a recent letter.
Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.
Sends extracts of works on domestication.
Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.
Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project