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Montagu Dict. p. 164. Extraordinary growth of young cuckoo is same with what happens with others produced from eggs of disproportionately small size, as in raven, whose eggs not half size of kites & yet comes to maturity same time.

Problem if eggs of the Amer. cuckoo are very small. What good? Is this false reasoning

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Montagu, George. 1802-1813. Ornithological dictionary; or, alphabetical synopsis of British birds. ed. by James Rennie. London.

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Small eggs lead to choosing small birds —Size to be arrived at & rapid maturation Another consequence apparently of small eggs leads to the probably stronger instinct of ejection.—

Begin with it has been supposed that small eggs adaptation to habit—wrong view

Has Molothus small eggs?

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