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they lay their Eggs, and seldom come among any other Turtle. These and all other Turtle lay Eggs in the Sand in N. lat. their time of laying is in May, June, July, in S. lat. about Christmas, some being sooner some later: They lay three times in a season, and at each time 80 or 90 Eggs. Their Eggs are as big as a Hens Egg, and very round, covered only with a white tough skin. There are some Bays on the North side of Jamaica, where these Hawksbills resort to lay. In the Bays of Honduras are Islands

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them. These eggs sold in general for a skelling a piece, or about sixpence English. They are fittest, and most used for cakes and ufs perdus; and they are particularly good, when eaten with a large quantity of butter. One single egg is sufficient for several people. And whereas hens eggs will seldom keep for any length of time on board of ship, and require great pains to be taken with them in order to turn them every day, ostriches eggs are easily preserved at sea, on account of their size

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Islands. V. 12. Sondergrondt Island, discovered by Schouten and le Maire. II. 378. Natives. 379-381. Situation. 453. Sonrol, or Sonsorol, an Island near the Pelew Islands. Two Missionary Fathers landed there. V. 14. 23. Sooloo Islands, Pearl fishery there. I. 94. Pearls as large as hen's eggs. ib. Soon, Don Alonso, a native of Guahan, sent in search of the Island Carolina. III. 307. V. 5. Sotomayor, Don Alonzo de. II. 46. 51. Sound, la, a Buccaneer; attempts to cross the Isthmus of Darien. IV

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greatly less. When pregnant, its belly swells to an enormous size; and indeed they often lay sixty eggs at a time, each of which is as large as those of a pigeon. These are reckoned a great dainty, not only at Panama, but in other parts where this creature is found. These eggs are all inclosed in a long, fine membrane, and form a kind of string. The flesh of this animal is exceedingly white, and universally admired by all ranks. I tasted both the flesh and the eggs, but the latter are viscid in

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— Difficult to raise for most of eggs are barren — chicken less hardy 76 Oldest var influences colour most ? B.P.B 82 P Mr Woodhouse, crested Pigeons (Q) [Variation 1: 160: I need say nothing on the great variability, in almost every breed, in size of body, in colour, in the feathering of the feet, and in the feathers on the back of the head being reversed. But I may mention a remarkable Tumbler28 exhibited at the Crystal Palace, which had an irregular crest of feathers on its head, somewhat like the

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, pyramidal, square, turban-shaped, pear-shaped, melon-shaped, boat-shaped, of the shape of an ale-stand, of a drum, c.a, and sometimes of shapes so strange and peculiar, that we can scarcely credit their claim to the name of eggs. Thus the eggs of the gnat are oblong and narrow, or nearly cylindrical, having at the top a cylindrical knobb, so as to give them the precise form of the round-bottomed phial sometimes used by chemists: those of the common a Eggs of various shapes are given PLATE XX. FIG

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the eggs of insects have usually thinner skins than pup , and yet they are unaffected by a degree of cold much superior. In the present state, then, of our knowledge of animal physiology, we must confess our ignorance of the cause of these phenomena, which seem never to have been sufficiently adverted to by general speculators on the nature of animal heat. We may conjecture, indeed, either that they are owing to some peculiar and varying attraction for caloric inherent in the fluids which

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produce facts in proof of each of these positions; not by any means all that might be adduced, but a few of the most striking that occur to me. First, then, insects often in cases not likely to be provided for by instinct, adopt means evidently designed for effecting their object. A certain degree of warmth is necessary to hatch a hen's eggs, and we give her little credit for reason in sitting upon them for this purpose. But if any one had ever seen a hen make her nest in a heap of fermenting

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their shoulders, and their head just peeping out between the legs which projected before them. All the Hottentots confirmed the fact of those nine eggs which were found on the outside of the nest, being intended as food for the young ostriches; and assured me that the eggs in this nest were the produce of two hens. In the evening we reached the Zak-rivier (Sack-river), the northern boundary of the colony, where we remained stationary the four following days. 31st. This is the principal river

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capons rear a brood much better than hens; and I have seen one of them with upwards of thirty chickens. The hen being thus freed from her brood soon begins to lay eggs again, which is a very great advantage. After an excursion of three weeks, I returned to Conception with my friend, Don Santiago Dias, to whom I brought letters of introduction from my good host at Arauco, Don Nicolas del Rio, which were most willingly attended to, and rendered my detention as a prisoner of war a delightful series of

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to those whose interest it is to cultivate it, and has little of curiosity or interest attached to it for other persons. The season of laying commences with the hens in the month of February, in cold countries. Having laid eighteen or twenty eggs in succession, they usually stop there, and show an inclination to sit; but by taking away their eggs according as they are laid, the hens will still continue laying. Their fecundity varies in degree; some only lay one egg in three days, others one in

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the others have laid all their eggs. Her desire may be satisfied by giving her a hen's egg; but it is an object that all the young turkeys should come out together. When all the females are ready to sit, a barn is got ready, with as many nests as there are females. In each of these nests, placed against the wall, eighteen eggs are to be put. If possible, each turkey-hen should receive those which she herself has laid. The windows of the place should be closed against the light. The barn should

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liver. We must be excused from entering into any details respecting them. They only show how far a perverted taste will degrade civilized man, when he makes his intellectual faculties wholly subservient to the uncontrolled requisitions of his animal nature. A brief notice of the modes of hatching chickens artificially, will, however, not be without interest for our readers. When men had tamed those fowls which people our poultry-yards, and succeeded in making hens lay eggs nearly all the year round

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well constructed roost, placed as near as possible to a coach-house or stable, and, still better, above them, to preserve them from the excessive cold of winter, for hens cannot support great cold, or abundant snow. Humidity, and marshy grounds, intersected by too much stagnant water, are equally injurious to them. The want of proper care in their establishment will soon show itself by the small quantity of eggs, the irregularity of the broods, and the languishing state of the chickens. In large

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contains the germ of the male. If a little on one side, it is that of the female. The love of liberty, the desire of withdrawing their eggs and young ones from the search of their enemies, and that instinct which brings back hens to their primitive state when they are disposed to fulfil those important functions which [page] 19

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have left us nothing but a few receipts on this subject, so inefficient as not to merit transcription. Under the reign of Augustus, Livia, the wife of that emperor, having heard that a man had succeeded in hatching chickens, by the mere heat of his body, remaining in bed on the eggs, for the same length of time as hens employ in incubation, bethought herself of hatching an egg by keeping it in her bosom. It produced a little cock, with a handsome crest. This circumstance excited great

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polygamous, in which the hen is obliged occasionally to quit the eggs to seek for food many in which the cock never feeds either her or the young. The facts cited by M. Parmentier, from observation on the domestic cock, appear to us to have as little weight as his hypothesis concerning the wild one. If the cock be observed to scrape straw together, and rub himself in it, it is no more than what cocks and hens continually do, in heaps of dust, c., when they have no thought of incubation, but

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of Nature in all cases; but in truth it must be the infallible result of the peculiar constitution and regimen of animals. Those which derive their subsistence from the vegetable kingdom must naturally be more numerous as their food is more plentiful; and the smaller races more especially so as each individual consumes a smaller quantity. Hens often lay infecundated eggs which the Romans called ova subventanea and the Greeks because they imagined them to be produced by the influence of the

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others lived, and became perfectly accustomed to the climate. They laid eggs at all seasons; and the broods became more frequent and more productive, in the course of time; and in the end much fewer were lost. The number of eggs in the nest used to vary, six having been together at a time; and these maccaws were seen to bring up four young ones at once. These eggs took from twenty to twenty-five days to be hatched, like those of our common hens. Their form was that of a pear, a little flatted, and

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, that the eggs inside the tortoise are very numerous, and adhere around a membrane in each of the ovaries. They are, as in hens, unequal, and proportioned to the epoch of their first development; but those which are fecundated soon acquire a similarity of bulk. They come out by the same aperture. One would imagine, from the heavy form of the tortoises, and the want of vivacity in their motions, that their growth was slow. Nevertheless, some facts seem to prove that it is rapid. There is a story

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between the laying of each egg. When they are taken away, according as they have been laid, the entire brood will amount to eight or twelve. In the wild state, as we have seen, they are much more numerous. The eggs are of the bulk and form of goose-eggs, of a fulvous white, with spots or points of a deeper hue. The pea-hens are not very assiduous in hatching, and often quit their eggs to fly to some elevated place. The best plan, therefore, is to have those eggs hatched by a hen-turkey, which can

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of their own species, in whose possession they see any food, a fact, moreover, of which we are constant eye-witnesses in other species, such as sparrows, hens, c.; but this is widely different from the attacks and combats of ferocious animals. It is especially during hurricanes that the gulls are exposed to all the horrors of famine. Mauduyt has made some interesting observations on them at Naples, during a tempest The gulls which dropped some time on the water, were too light to be submerged

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at their head and in a separate group The Rock MANAKINS (RUPICOLA) which are large and bear on their heads a double vertical crest of feathers arranged like a fan. The adult males of the two known species are of the finest orange and the young of an obscure brown. These birds live on fruits scratch the earth like hens and make their nests with dry wood in the deep caverns of the rocks. The female lays two eggs. They are confined to South America. Rock Manakin or Hoopoe Hen. Pipra Rupicola Lin

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sweetish taste, and sooner satiate the appetite. The inhabitants of the Cape make with these eggs a sort of p tes, or puddings, and omelettes. As their shell is very thick, they can be very well preserved on board ship, where the eggs of hens very soon grow musty. Drinking cups are made with the shell, which hardens with time, and assumes some resemblance to ivory. When the Nasamones, inhabitants of Lybia, went to war, their defensive arms were made of the skin of the ostrich, which is very thick, and

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entrance, and swallow many. Several birds, such as sparrows, swallows, the kingfisher, hens, c. are partial to these insects. Foxes sometimes turn the hives over in the winter to get at the honey. Ants penetrate into the habitation of the bees, being very fond of honey, and even occasionally attack the eggs. The odour which exhales from some species is very disagreeable to the bees. The death's head sphinx, when it enters the hive, occasions great confusion there, and causes many bees to perish