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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A52a-c, DAR 84.1: 143
Summary:

Migratory male nightingales and blackcaps arrive before females [see Descent 1: 259].

Discusses chaffinch "Peggers".

Disagrees with CD’s opinion that canary mules are fertile.

Display of colour of greenfinches in courtship.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project