From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 141–2
Summary:
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
CD thanks JJW for letter about the crimson breast of linnets
and the fate of a pugnacious female bullfinch.
Refers to JJW’s pointing out the number of Jenners and Weirs who have been naturalists, and cites some writings by men of those families about striking cases of birds.
Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].