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To T. C. Eyton   3 May [1861]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

May 3d

Dear Eyton

I have received the skeletons this morning & am very much obliged to your kindness for sending them.—2 I am truly sorry to give trouble; but one domestic cock in longest box with sliding lid has no sort of name. Can you tell me what it is, as it is useless without name.—

Also what is “Gungla” cock   is G. Bankiva? or G. Sonneratii?3

The other Box contains the Hamburgh.— And the fourth Box contains Call Duck; so perhaps you will know what the fourth is.

I cannot say much for my own health, though I have been rather better lately— I write in a hurry to catch Post—

With sincere thanks | Yours very truly | C. Darwin.

1
Dated by the reference to skeletons of fowls. CD was composing his chapters on fowls for Variation (see ‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix II).
2
CD acknowledged his indebtedness to Eyton for three of the fowl skeletons included in his discussion of the osteological differences between various breeds of fowl in Variation 1: 260.

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