Dear Sclater

It is a shame to trouble so busy a man as you; but I sh^d. be very much obliged for a bit of information, which you can give me better than anyone.

Would it be too strong to say? that, from the known distribution of the Gallinaceæ it would be almost as improbable that a species of the genus Gallus should be endemic in S. America, as that a Humming Bird sh^d. be found in the Old World.— With respect to Africa, may I not say that no species is known there; and that it is not very probable that any species should have wandered so far from the Metropolis of the genus in India & the Northern Malay Isl^d.—¹

Lastly can you tell me where in Proc. Zoolog. Soc. Gallus Temminckii of G R. Gray is described; for I cannot conceive what species is meant.²

Pray forgive & aid me.— If you were to say “yes” (supposing that I am right) it would suffice.—

Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin

Many thanks for your note received other day.— I had not heard of your paper at Oxford.—³