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Starlings find new mates readily. Nesting in threes common.

Recognition of song by birds.

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Coloration of linnets.

Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.

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Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.

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On mutations in rabbits.

Cytisus case is not a double graft.

Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.

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On variegated leaves; a feature not inherited consistently.

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Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.

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Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]

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Courtship of goldfinches. Male display. [See Descent 2: 95.]

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Aggressive behaviour of a bullfinch toward new arrival in JJW’s aviary.

Sexual differences in goldfinches: size of beaks.

Sexual selection in Lepidoptera.

Thinks Dr Alex Wallace’s observations on Bombyx not conclusive in proving that no preference is shown by females.

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South Down sheep: variability in colouring and patterning of lambs compared with constancy of adult coat.

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Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]

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Observations on root-climbers. Variegated and arborescent varieties of Hedera.

[CD’s notes are for his reply, 6165.]

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Proportion of sexes in ruffs [see Descent 1: 306].

Colour display in linnets, songbirds. Courtship display of Australian pigeon at zoo.

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Proportion of sexes in chaffinches.

Pugnacity of blackbirds and robins.

Harrison Weir reports up to nine eggs in starling nests.

Newspaper report of a sheep born with its owner’s brand.

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Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.

Coloration of the linnet.

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Describes the unusual appearance of a horse whose mother had previously borne a foal by a quagga. The effect of one mating on the subsequent pregnancy of another mating is explained by JJW using Pangenesis.

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Trusts his paper ["Apterous Lepidoptera" (1867), printed for the West Kent Natural History, Microscopical, and Photographic Society] showed that he is thoroughly a disciple of CD.

Cites evidence that birds undoubtedly distinguish colours. [see Descent 2: 110.]

Summary

Various facts about birds: pairing, finding new mates, protective coloration, polygamy, sexual differences.

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Loss of juvenile colouring in South Down sheep.

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Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.