Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
My dear Sir
Will you have the kindness to give me some information on one point? Not long since I
was speaking to Mr Wallace about his mimetic butterflies,
& I told him of the case of the Rhynchœa, of which the female is more
beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter.
He answered me that you at Nottingham had advanced this or some such case, &
that you had simply explained it by the male being the incubator. I should be extremely obliged if you w
I hope that you will forgive me troubling