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