The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 3: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by HMS Beagle (1839) by Paul H Barrett

The Works of Charles Darwin: v. 3: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by HMS Beagle (1839) by Paul H Barrett

Author:Paul H Barrett [Barrett, Paul H]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Science
ISBN: 9781315477558
Google: bSIXDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-03T16:16:58+00:00


NOTES

1 Dampier’s Voyage, vol. i, p. 101.

2 Both Charles and James Islands take their names from the Stuarts. See Cowley’s Voyage in 1684.

3 Magazine of Zoology and Botany, vol. i, p. 466.

q The sixth bird, mentioned as an inhabitant of the Galapagos, Mr Gould now finds is not like the rest, peculiar to these islands, but is a known North American species of Ammodramus.

4 Dampier says, ‘The land-turtles are here so numerous, that five or six hundred men might subsist on them for several months without any other sort of provisions. They are so extraordinarily large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly.’ Vol. i, p. 110.

r See Appendix ‘Extensive Addenda’ p. 489.

5 Zoological Journal, July, 1835.

6 Briefly characterized by Mr Gray in the Zoological Miscellany, from a specimen badly stuffed; from which cause one of its most important characters (the rounded tail, compared to the flattened one of the aquatic kind) was overlooked. Captain FitzRoy has presented some fine specimens of both species to the British Museum. I cannot omit here returning my thanks to Mr Gray, for the kind manner in which he has afforded me every facility as often as I have visited the British Museum.

7 Voyage aux quatre Iles d’Afrique.

8 Cowley’s Voyage, p. 10, in Dampier’s Collection of Voyages.

9 Dampier’s Voyage, vol. i, p. 103.

10 Pernety, Voyage aux Iles Malouines, vol. ii, p. 20.

s To the two cases of land-birds being extremely tame in islands only lately inhabited by man, I might have added Tristan de Acunha. Captain D. Carmichael (Linn. Transact., vol. xii, p. 496), speaking of the thrush and bunting — the only true land-birds — says, ‘they fly about the cantonment, and are so tame as to suffer themselves to be caught with a hand-net.’



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