WCP4011

Letter (WCP4011.3954)

[1]

9, St. Mark's Crescent

Regent's Park. N.W.

Aug. 10th. [1865]1

Dear Newton

A rare, & rather handsome pigeon is Phlegaenas [sic] tristigmata. Bp2. & it is not yet figured. If this will do let me know who I shall send it to.

It is described in Bp. Consp. II. p. 88.4, 5

Very truly yours | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

1
The back of page [[2]] is annotated in ink in an unknown but apparently contemporary hand "A.R. Wallace, London. Aug. 10-11/65 | Answered Aug. 14/65".
2
The plate, showing a pair of Phlegoenas tristigmata, was included in Wallace, A.R. 1865. On the Pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. The Ibis. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Series 2, 1(4): [pp. 365-400; plate IX, p. 393].

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Revision history

Transcribed by Szentgyorgyi, Katherine [2012-09-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Lucas, Paula [2020-08-27]

Please cite as “WCP4011,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4011