Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
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Quiz arrived safely.
CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.
Horace Darwin strangely ill.
Family and local news.
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.
Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.