From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD thanks JJW for the mine of information his last "ten!" letters contain. Comments on sexual display of pheasants and colour preferences of pigeons.
Asks about hens that pair earliest in spring and about possible existence of unpaired birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project