"Pouter pigeon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one was irresistibly reminded of a pouter pigeon strutting along on its short little legs, preening its sleek little head to and fro above ...
— Flaming June • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... rather to depart more and more widely from the original type than to revert to it." On the margin Darwin wrote: "Without selection doubtful" (loc. cit., page viii).), and about domestic races being produced under nature without selection. It would take much to persuade me that a Pouter Pigeon, or a Carrier, etc., could have been produced by the mere laws of variation without long continued selection, though each little enlargement of crop and beak are due to variation. I demur greatly to his comparison of the products of sinking and rising islands (87/6. ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin |
