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Asks PLS to sign the memorial for a pension for Wallace.

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Encloses paper [by W. Van Dyck] for publication by the Zoological Society ["On Syrian street dogs", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1882): 367–70].

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CD has signed the enclosed with great pleasure.

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Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.

Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]

and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].

Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".

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Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.

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Asks for a rabbit specimen;

inquires about a hybrid hare–rabbit.

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Promises to send copy of Origin [3d ed.].

Is pleased that PLS has "become ""heretical"" on species".

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Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

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Asks about species of Opetiorhynchus.

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CD is unable to locate his specimens of two Falkland Island birds [Opetiorhynchus].

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Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

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Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.

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Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.

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Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.

Notes improvement in health.

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Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.

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Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.

Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].

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Bird specimens collected by Capt. P. P. King eventually went to British Museum, but many specimens were incorrectly marked.

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Encloses, for publication, note about Pampas woodpecker, opposing W. H. Hudson [see 7354].

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Asks PLS whether he will look over list of names of birds [for Descent] to make sure they are spelled correctly. "I have a most unfortunate weakness … to copy proper names incorrectly".

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Thanks PLS for his generous offer to go over the part on birds [in Descent]. Does not think PLS realises that there are more than 200 pages – most of which will have nothing new for him.

W. H. Hudson’s proofs have arrived ["Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1870): 87–9, 158–60, 332–4, 545–50, 671–3, 748–50, 798–82; (1871): 4–7, 258–62, 326–9].