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Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.

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Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.

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Comments on and corrections for chapter 13, "Mammals", of Descent.

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Retention of horns by female deer with fawn [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].

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Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.

Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.

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Argues that coloration of eggs is a protective adaptation.

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A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.

Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.

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Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.

Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].

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Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.

Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.

Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.

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Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.