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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
9 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for name of the birds that have only once obtained summer plumage.

Wishes he could persuade ADB to experiment to see whether bower-birds prefer gay colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 38–9
Summary:

On the summer, or breeding, plumage of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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