To J. J. Weir 27 May [1869]1
Down, Beckenham, Kent.
May 27
My dear Sir
Many thanks for your answer about the migratory birds and I have also written to Mr. Swaysland at Brighton.2 All the pieces of information in your last letter are just the fish which I like to catch in my net. I don’t remember what I have said about Canary hybrids, but thought I had only stated that the Canary crosses easily with many other species; I will however keep your note and look to my authorities if I live to come to the subject.3 I am glad to hear about the Canary at once selecting as its mate the greenfinch, but I am surprised it did not choose the siskin.4
With many thanks believe me | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for information about bird migration.
Comments on canary hybridisation.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6759
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Jenner Weir
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 323
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6759,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6759.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17