From:
Stephen Augustine Merrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 157, 157/1
Summary:
Corrects T. M. Brewer’s statement, cited in the Origin, that the American cuckoo never uses other birds’ nests. [See Origin, 5th ed., p. 266.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project