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From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250a
Summary:

Tells of shooting wood-pigeons that had in their crops acorns that did not grow locally.

[Fragment of letter glued to 2197.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Scot Skirving
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 250b
Summary:

Pigeons in Egypt alight on trees rather than on the mud hovels of the natives [see Variation 1: 181].

[Two fragments glued to 2196.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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