To J. J. Weir [before 18 May 1868]1
It is very odd that my memory shd fail me, but I cannot remember whether in accordance with your views the wing of Gallus Bankiva (or Game Cock which is so like the wild) is ornamental,2 when he & opens & scrapes it before female. I fear it is not, but though I have often looked at wing of wild & tame bird, I cannot call to mind exact colours.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
CD cannot remember whether correspondent believed the wing that Gallus bankiva opens and scrapes before the female, is ornamented. He fears it is not.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6537
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Jenner Weir
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- AL 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6537,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6537.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16
