From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Baruch Jakob Placzek
Date:
[after 19 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
Placzek 1883, p. 112 n.
Summary:
Expresses doubts that pigeons could rest one wing during flight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Expresses doubts that pigeons could rest one wing during flight.
Behaviour of pigeons is now different from that described in Beresbith Raba, a 3d century gloss on Genesis.