My dear Sir

Thank you for so kindly always remembering me. I have skeleton of Himalaya;² but if you will leave the Head till thoroughily wasted I sh^d. be glad of it as duplicate.—³ With respect to Pigeons I shall collect no more, for I think for my object I have done enough. Though I am telling a partial story, for I have just written about some Smiters advertised by a M^r Roe at Salisbury.—⁴ I have just lost one of the old Barbs the parent of that sent you, so I shall have no more; but I have a grown male, which I can send to you, & will look in course of week or two, whether I have anything else worth sending.

You can make away with the young Cock Scanderoon. Thanks you for your offer of the Cock Rumpless, but I shall not want it. There is only one sort of Fowl, which I sh^d. be glad to get or buy cheap, viz an old Cock Malay, & if you could help me in this I sh^d. be very glad.— Pray take care of the Head of the wild Jungle, as at some time I sh^d. like that Back.—

I have heard of arrival of a set of Burmese Fowl-skins, but they are at Berlin, so I suppose I shall not receive them very soon.—⁵

With many thanks— | Your’s very sincerely | C. Darwin