From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A72–3
Summary:
Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Polygamous breeding habits of the Indian wild boar. [See Descent 1: 267.]
Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
Thanks WE for an oriental treatise on pigeons, a paper on poultry, and specimens.
Asks about stripes on shoulders and legs of horses and donkeys.
Asks whether the wild boar in India is polygamous.