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Nature07.07.1870
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    Donnerstag, 07. Juli 1870
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[...] the corpuscles not only in the blood, but in all the tissues of the silkworm. Osimo, in 1857, discovered the corpuscles in the eggs, and on this observation Vittadiani founded, in 1859, a practical method of distinguishing healthy from diseased eggs. The test often proved fallacious, and it [...]
[...] as aforesaid, recommended the examination of the eggs [...]
[...] beſore risking their incubation. Pasteur showed that both eggs and worms might be smitten and still pass muster, the culture of such eggs or such worms being sure to entail disaster. He made the moth his starting-point [...]
[...] determine their practice, Pasteur hit upon the expedient of prophecy. In 1866 he inspected at St. Hippolyte-du Fort fourteen different parcels of eggs intended for incu bation. Having examined a sufficient number of the moths which produced these eggs, he wrote out the predic [...]
[...] hend, hesitate in his choice. - Pasteur describes in detail his method of securing healthy eggs, which is nothing less than a mode of restor [...]
[...] Cuckows' Eggs WHAT is the drift of this discussion on the eggs of the cuckow 2 Is it “natural selection,” “mimetic analogy,” or [...]
[...] and deposited in nests of 1, Bergeronette brun (Motacilla ca/ensis); 2, /3. coryphaeus ; 3, Gobemouche mantelé (Tºhitrea cyanome/as); and others, whose eggs I do not know. Of 1, the eggs are greyish white, or rather nankin, minutely freckled with brown ; of 3, they are cream-coloured, profusely spotted [...]
[...] nests of Zºycnonotus ca/ensis, whose eggs are rather deep lake, profusely spotted with dark markings : They also, I know, lay in the nests of Pycnonotus migricans—eggs as of the last. I found Mud-birds (Maſacircus engalensis) in Ceylon, feeding a young O. melano/eºcos, and their eggs are of a uniform deep [...]
[...] young O. melano/eºcos, and their eggs are of a uniform deep verditer. Chalcites auratus lays white eggs also, and some of my corre spondents have sent what I believe to be their eggs taken from the nests of Z/ºphantornis capitalis, whose eggs are green, pro [...]
[...] for her talents, love of natural history, and powers of obser vation. We often discussed this subject. She and her sons assured me they never cared to select eggs like those of the foster-parent, but simply eggs of those whose food they knew to be similar. They said the confusion they caused was most [...]
Nature24.10.1872
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    Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 1872
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[...] questions, passing successfully through all the stages above noted. Firstly, they furnished a virgin colony in a nest absolutely free from eggs and larvae—except a few advanced larvae purposely left in some nests and noted down—which colony laid eggs; secondly, these eggs produced without exception (some few eggs [...]
[...] facts were noted:—Number of the nest, date it was made moveable, number of cells at that time, day of emergence of first worker-female, date of destruction of queen, eggs, and grubs, number of larvae and pupae left undestroyed at this date, date of first laying of parthenogenetic eggs, date of first emergence [...]
[...] ceedingly desirable that those who may be fortunate enough to come across a mixed brood, should make experiments to as certain if all the eggs which are fertilised produce males. The females of the purely female broods are completely developed in every respect, having perfect copulatory organs, and the egg is [...]
[...] regularly occur. No structural difference appears to exist between the two kinds of females, but the former, on escaping from the chrysalis-sac, at once proceed to lay eggs, which produce invari ably females; whilst the latter wait for copulation, and if that be withheld, die, and dry up without laying their eggs. These insects [...]
[...] nally at the posterior end, and giving off towards the other end primary and secondary branches. On the ends of these short secondary branches are situated the egg follicles. Four cells appear in each egg follicle in a very early stage of its development, and one of these takeson more rapid growth–becoming the egg-cell—whilst [...]
[...] of these takeson more rapid growth–becoming the egg-cell—whilst the others disappear as deutoplasmogen or vitellogenous cells ; the egg then acquires some size and a red colour, and has a visible germinal vesicle. But such eggs are much smaller than the eggs observable in the main stem of the ovarian tube, and this appears [...]
[...] ſollicles as a matter of course, and pass along the canal leading from it to a primary branch of the ovarian tube, and there two and sometimes three of these eggs /use into one mass, around which a shell is secreted, and which thus forms the actual egg—really a threefold egg; and from such a wonderfully formed egg only [...]
[...] becomes of the germinal vesicles; according to the drawings they seem to disappear at this stage. We know of the development in the tunicate Zºrosoma of five embryos from one egg, here we have the converse case of one embryo developing from three eggs. Siebold appears to have convinced himself that the fusion is a [...]
[...] yelk-division, and some of their cells had even advanced into a branched condition. Dr. Oellacher of Innsbruck has observed stages of yelk-division in unſertilised hen's eggs. In fishes, in 1859, Agassiz observed yelk-division occurring in the eggs of Gadidae, whilst yet in the ovary, and considered it to be due to [...]
[...] concludes that the yelk-division is independent of fertilisation, a supposition which is rendered in every way probable from other researches on the fish egg; but, curiously enough, Dr. Burnett thinks these eggs should be regarded as “germs,” and not as “true eggs,” an opinion to which Siebold, of course, is com [...]
Nature18.11.1869
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    Donnerstag, 18. November 1869
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[...] Meyer's British Birds and their Eggs. Illus [...]
[...] CUCKO J.W.S." EGGS [...]
[...] to be irrational, as some have supposed, and for scouting it as something beneath contempt. It has long been notorious to oologists that the eggs of the Cuckow are subject to very great variety in colour, and that a large number of birds laying eggs of very different [...]
[...] that his published figures represent the specimens (sixteen in number) from which they are drawn, as faithfully as figures of eggs usually do, and that an inspection of the series convinced me that the belief he entertained was not groundless. All the eggs in question, some departing very [...]
[...] difference between them and those they “mimicked,” to show that it was far more unlikely that they should have been extraordinary varieties of the eggs of the species in question, than eggs of the Cuckow. Dr. Baldamus's allegation therefore seemed to me to be [...]
[...] by him in Algeria during the preceding season. When they were unpacked, it appeared that there were two more specimens of the egg of a large North-African Cuckow (Oxylophus glandarius) than I had been led by him to expect. On examination, I found that the first two eggs [...]
[...] of the Cuckow in this country; and indeed one may say, perhaps, that such an egg is a compromise between the three, or a resultant, perhaps, of three opposing forces; but any likeness between the Hedge-Sparrow's egg and [...]
[...] in which the presumed daughter of a particular Golden Eagle, remarkable for having produced eggs of very great beauty, has in two successive years laid eggs which un mistakably resembled those of her reputed mother in the [...]
[...] brilliant character of their colouring. Hence I am not afraid of hazarding the supposition, that the habit of laying a particular style of egg is likely to become hereditary in the Cuckow’; just as I have previously maintained that the habit of depositing that egg in the [...]
[...] Bunting-Lark, and of that bird which for some reason best known to the donor bears the English name of “Melodious Willow-warbler,” approximate in their colouring to the eggs of those species—species in whose nests the Cuckow rarely (in comparison with others) deposits her eggs. Of species [...]
Nature03.10.1872
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    Donnerstag, 03. Oktober 1872
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[...] O.V 7///E / / / /.V / /O.V A.V/) CO/OUA'/.VC OF EGGS, A.V.D 7///E PROTECT/VE MI.111CRY OF SOUV/OS' [...]
[...] ready for extrusion. From personal observation we know that our kingfisher lays nearly every morning till the clutch of eggs is completed ; the number of eggs to a clutch varying from five to seven. Here we have a bird engaged in laborious, almost incessant exertion, for quite six weeks, [...]
[...] three occasions during that period of six weeks. It is well known that the domestic fowl, on a change of quarters, will, in its strange home, sometimes retain the egg for hours beyond the usual time of laying, often depositing what is called a double-yoked egg, but we have to do [...]
[...] female bittern (/3. Avici/o/fºrus) was slightly wounded and secured. It was kept within a grassy enclosure. While thus confined it laid an egg of a pale bluish green colour, precisely like that of a heron. The egg of our bittern is about the same size; its normal colour of a similar [...]
[...] bittern's nest is by no means an offensively obtrusive object. Having had eggs from several nests under observation, I have noticed that bittern's eggs do now and then vary in tint from buffy brown to pale olivaceous ; but in no [...]
[...] I have noticed that bittern's eggs do now and then vary in tint from buffy brown to pale olivaceous ; but in no case approximately to that blue green of the heron's egg. In the instance cited, was the peculiar colouring used as a means of securing for the egg the protection of the [...]
[...] laid may be considered as somewhat analogous to those under which the cuckoo laid No. 26 specimen in the aimous series of eggs formed by Herr Baldamus (see vol. f.p. 508); nor is the occulence of this peculiar-looking bittern's egg without its use in estimating the value to be [...]
[...] f.p. 508); nor is the occulence of this peculiar-looking bittern's egg without its use in estimating the value to be accorded to certain abnormally coloured eggs as illustrat ing and supporting a theory nct adverse to the proposi tion–Can a bird influence the colour of its eggs pro [...]
[...] nest of its victim was considered. Last season one of the writer’s children brought in a nest of the blight bird (Zostero/s ſaferaſts) containing four eggs, one of which was a puzzle indeed ; it was found on comparison, that although a shade darker in colour, it resembled the rest of the eggs [...]
[...] avail itself of the advantages presented by this mode of construction, as ensuring a greater degree of safety from reptilian egg-robbers. The open cup-shape of the Zosſe roºs' nest would disclose to its owner the marked contrast between its own clear blue-green eggs and the large, [...]
Nature08.05.1873
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    Donnerstag, 08. Mai 1873
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[...] Fig. 7, Lurva of Brachytarsus (Ratzeburg, Forst Insectea). 8, Larva of rioceris (Westwood, l.c.) 4. Larva of Sirex (Westwood l.c.) 15. Egg of Rhynchites, showing the parasilic larva in the interior. 16, the parasitic larva more magnified. [...]
[...] Fig. 17, Egg of Platygaster (after Ganin). 18, Egg of Platygaster showing the central cell. 12, Egg of Platygaster after the division of the central wa'l 29, Egg of Platygaster more advanced. 21, Egg of [...]
[...] showing the central cell. 12, Egg of Platygaster after the division of the central wa'l 29, Egg of Platygaster more advanced. 21, Egg of Platygaster more advanced. 22, Egg of Platygaster showing the rudi ment of the embryo. [...]
[...] gated by M. Fabre.* The genus Sitaris is parasitic on Anthophora, in the galleries in which it lays its eggs. These are hatched at [...]
[...] watching their opportunity, they pass from the male to the female bee. Guided by these indications, M. Fabre examined several cells of Anthophora : in some, the egg of the Anthophora floated by itself on the surface of the honey; in others, on the egg, as on a raſt, sat the still [...]
[...] larvae. . The perfect insect is aquatic in its habits, swimming by means of its wings; flying, if we may say so, under water. It lays its eggs inside those of Dragon flies; and the larva, as shown in Fig. 28, leaves the egg in the form of a bottled-shaped mass of undiffe [...]
[...] rentiated embryonal cells, covered by a thin cuticle, but without any trace of further organisation. Protected by the egg shell of the Dragon fly, the young Polynema is early able to dispense with its own ; and bathed in the nourishing fluid of the Dragon fly's egg, it imbibes [...]
[...] Fig. 28, Embryo of Polynema (aſier Ganin). 20, Larva of Polynema, a sch, rudiments of the antennae; ſ’s ch of the wings: 8 sch of the eggs; ” y ç, lateral projections; º's ch, rudiments of the ovipositor; /4, tatty tissue. [...]
[...] small animals, seeds, and sometimes even minute organisms ; this explains the well-known phenomena of showers of frogs. These eggs, these seeds, these small organisms, sometimes fall into the water, which transports them to still greater distances. Trunks of trees, which traverse the ocean under [...]
[...] of Iceland and Britain. Birds, insects, mammals which are removed, carry with them thousands of parasites, microscopic beings, eggs or germs. Man himself carries them about more [...]
Nature30.12.1869
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    Donnerstag, 30. Dezember 1869
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[...] Colouring of the Cuckow’s Egg [...]
[...] are yearly ſound in nests of the Hedge-Sºrrow in this country, without ever bearing the ſaintest similar iſy to its well-known green blue eggs. One may grant that an ordinary English Cuckow’s egg will pass well enough, in the eyes of the dupe, for * Where I have quoted from this paper, I have quoted from the transla [...]
[...] according to my experience are the most common foster-parents of the Cuckow in this country; and indeed one may say, per haps, that such an egg is a compromise between the three, or a resultant, perhaps, of the three opposing forces; but any likeness between the Aſedge-Sparrow's egg and the Cuckow’s so often found [...]
[...] Tree Pipit (Anthus arboreus); if I myself had not taken out of the nests of the Red-backed Shrike (Zanius collurio) this red dish and this green-greyish peculiarly marked Cuckoo's egg, one might indeed entertain doubts whether this variously-coloured collection—these green eggs, with and without markings : these [...]
[...] grey, yellow brown, yellow red, wine red, brown red, dark brown and black ; these spotted, streaked, speckled, grained and marbled eggs could one and all be the eggs of our Cuckoo ! And yet this is indeed the fact ." How different this from the much more cautious and limited statement of Professor Newton, [...]
[...] much more cautious and limited statement of Professor Newton, first quoted, which would entirely sweep away some of these varieties, especially those resembling the eggs of the Redstart or the Hedge-Sparrow, for the eggs of these two species do not differ much from each other, and what might be said of the eggs of the [...]
[...] of Dr. Baldamus' selected species, for, a little further on, he gives a list of the various species from the nests of which Cuckoo's eggs have been taken resembling those of the foster-parent. Of the eggs of the Redstart he says:– “These four specimens, which were found in the nests of Auticiſła phanicurus, are [...]
[...] of Dr. Dehne, which is uniformly light-greenish blue, without any markings whatsoever.” Of the single specimen of the egg resembling that of the Hedge Sparrow, No. 15 in his list, he says:–“One of the most interest ing of the Cuckoo's eggs is a beautiful blue-green one, which was [...]
[...] ensured and facilitated the preservation of a species otherwise much exposed to danger, and that she has attained this object by investing every hen Cuckoo with the faculty of laying eggs coloured exactly like the eggs of the bird of whose nest she preſers to make use, according to the locality. Now if this were [...]
[...] himself the exceptions are numerous, and Professor Newton would make them still more numerous, and would no doubt be quite right in doing so. How, then, do the eggs in the excep tional cases prosper? Does the Hedge-Sparrow or the Redstart throw the egg of the Cuckoo out of its nest because it does not [...]
Nature10.10.1872
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    Donnerstag, 10. Oktober 1872
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[...] be followed out in ignorance and obscurity?” And, after stating the fact of the burying beetles, who, after laying their eggs in the bodies of small dead animals, bury them in order that they may not be devoured by birds and beasts of prey, he continues :— [...]
[...] Siebold published his observations on bees, demonstrating what had been previously supposed, viz., that the queen-bee exhausts her store of received sperm in fertilising eggs which give rise to females only, and that then she lays unfertilised eggs, which become drones only, whilst the unfertilised worker-females also lay eggs which [...]
[...] readily recognised in plants, in the multiplication by seed, by cuttings or shoots, and by separable buds. A broad line was drawn between “buds” and “eggs,” however egg-like the for mer might appear, in the assumption that eggs were special bodies of a peculiar structure, destined to be “fertilised ” by the [...]
[...] cently acquired knowledge of the process of fertilisation or im pregnation. Then came the demonstration by Siebold of the capacity for development of true eggs, even when not impreg nated. The sharpness of the limit between buds and eggs was by this at once destroyed ; and the closely following researches [...]
[...] exception, the question has now shifted, and, since the essential identity in reproductive power of cuttings, buds, pseudova, and eggs is proved, the problem before naturalists is rather, “Why are eggs ever fertilised P' in short, “What is the use of the male sex at all 2’” We have animals and plants multiplying by [...]
[...] tion to Leydig, on account of its nerve supply, Siebold holds to be contractile. Atter waiting some days Siebold had the grati fication of finding the first eggs laid in the cells of several of the nests from which he had removed queen, eggs, and larvae, and he felt convinced that they could only have been laid by the [...]
[...] were there, and the virgins watched and worked with the same assiduity as had done their queen-mother. In some cases Siebold actually saw a worker deposit an egg, and such egg laying workers, when anatomically tested, showed, firstly, in the presence of corpora lutea (the precise signification of which the [...]
[...] presence of corpora lutea (the precise signification of which the investigator had ascertained by his histological studies of the ovary) that eggs had been extruded, and, secondly, in the com plete absence of spermatozoa from the receptaculum seminis, that the insect was a virgin. Out of a hundred nests which he had [...]
[...] evidence of the sex. In all cases the parthenogenetic offspring was without exception male. The queen-wasps as we have mentioned also late in the season lay eggs which produce drones, which are easily distinguished from the drones parthenogenetically produced by their larger size. It occurred to Siebold when he [...]
[...] latter at the beginning ; and, furthermore, as we have noticed above, it is not till still later (August), when the experimental cells were long since all occupied with eggs, that the power and desire of sexual activity comes to these drones. E. R. LAN KESTER [...]
Nature04.07.1872
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    Donnerstag, 04. Juli 1872
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[...] WIS II to say a few words for the benefit of those engaged in collecting oological specimens. Twenty years ago all eggs were blown with two holes—one at each end, and until within ten years most eggs have been emptied with two holes as above, or at the side. Very many of [...]
[...] at each end, and until within ten years most eggs have been emptied with two holes as above, or at the side. Very many of the eggs which I now receive in myſexchanges are similarly pre pared. At the present time no experienced collector ever makes but one hole to remove the contents of the egg, using a blowpipe [...]
[...] in some form to accomplish this object. The following rules should invariably be followed : 1. Prepare your eggs meat and clean. There is no excuse for having a dirty set of eggs where water, soap, and a tooth-brush can be found. Some eggs will not bear washing, as the shell is [...]
[...] thing else. 2. Make but one hole, and that a small one in the middle of the egg; cover this hole, when the contents are removed, and the specimen is dry, with gold-beater skin or the paper number indi cating the bird. Use an egg drill or a pointed wire of four or six [...]
[...] sides to make the opening. 3. If the blowpipe does not readily remove the contents of the egg, inject water and shake the specimen thoroughly, then blow again, and repeat the operation until every particle of the egg is removed. [...]
[...] few days the contents will become sufficiently decomposed to take away. y After removing the contents of any egg, cleanse the shell thoroughly. Fill it with clean water and shake vigorously, blow out the contents and repeat the operation until the specimen is [...]
[...] thoroughly. Fill it with clean water and shake vigorously, blow out the contents and repeat the operation until the specimen is perfectly clean. This is particularly desirable in white eggs, as black spots will show through the shell after a time if the least particle of the egg or blood stains remains inside. [...]
[...] 6. Save all your eggs in sets—that is, keep all the eggs each bºrd lays by themselves. This is the only way to form a correct knowledge of the eggs of any species, as a single egg, particularly [...]
[...] markings in the same species and in the same nest. 7. Keep a memorandum of the place and date of collecting each set of eggs. 8. Use some kind of blowpipe in preparing your eggs for the cabinet. The common blowpipe, with the addition of a fine [...]
[...] THE SciENTIFIc RELATIONs of GERMANY, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND. By M. BERTHELot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Instructions for PREPARING Birds' Eggs. By W. Wood, M.D. 19.1 Scientific Serials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Societies and Academies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 [...]
Nature23.12.1869
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    Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 1869
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[...] Cuckow’s Eggs [...]
[...] as I have always taken great interest in the breeding of the cuckow. I cannot quite agree with Professor Newton that cuckows' eggs as a rule are subject to great variety. The eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckow (Oxylophus glandarius) are cer tainly not subject to much variety; for in a large series from [...]
[...] the usual type. Qf those I possess in my own collection, the most peculiar variety is a large egg, the ground colour of which is a dirty grey, sparingly spotted and blotched with light brown, and somewhat resembling some varieties of the eggs of the Garden [...]
[...] grey, sparingly spotted and blotched with light brown, and somewhat resembling some varieties of the eggs of the Garden Warbler (Sylvia horſensis). This egg was found by the late Mr. E. Seidensacher, of Cilli, Styria, in a nest of the creeper (Cer. thia familiaris), with four eggs of the foster-parent, and was sent [...]
[...] My friend at Coblentz wrote to me some time ago, stating that he had observed that the same female cuckow generally produces similarly coloured eggs, and that he had found in a nest of 7 urdus merula a peculiar and abnormally coloured egg of the common cuckow, closely resembling that of the common bunting [...]
[...] (AEmberiza miliaria), and shortly after found in a nest of the Robin (Sylvia rubecula), situated close to the blackbird's nest above referred to, another similar cuckow’s egg. He further states that the cuckow is not a common bird there, and that he had good reasons for supposing that the two eggs were produced [...]
[...] As far as my own experience goes, I cannot testify to the correctness of 10r. Baldamus's theory, as amongst all the cuckows' eggs I have collected, I find scarcely any that resemble those of the foster-parents. I have now before me eggs of our common cuckow taken with the following species, the eggs of which I [...]
[...] cula, Certhia familiaris, Z. mºeriza hortuſana, Sykia Allustris, .S. cinerca, A/ofacilla a/ba, and Accentor modularis, none of which, excepting that found with the eggs of Sylvia cinerea, bear any resemblance to the eggs of the foster-parent. The eggs of the American cow bunting (.jſoło!hrus pºcoris) which, like our [...]
[...] resemble those of the foster-parent, and in the instances that have come under my own observation I have found them to differ very widely from the foster-parent's eggs. On the other hand, the eggs of the Great Spotted Cuckow (Oxylophus glandarius) are so strikingly similar to those of the common Magpie, in whose [...]
[...] Variety and Species.—F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218 Cuckow’s Eggs.-H. E. DREssºr. . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Physical Meteorology.—Dr. Hudson. . . . . . . . . . 218 A Cyclone in England—F.R.A.S. . . . . . . . . . . . 219 [...]
Nature18.08.1870
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    Donnerstag, 18. August 1870
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[...] Cuckow’s Eggs [...]
[...] A short time ago I addressed you on the subject of Cuckow’s eggs, giving you some experiences of my own. I now have much pleasure in forwarding to you a portion of a letter on the same subject from an esteemed and observant correspondent, [...]
[...] “Your remarks on the eggs of the cuckow tribe are very in teresting. I confess that I am, a believer in natural selection, and Darwinian in my opinions, but nevertheless in this matter I [...]
[...] parasitic. - “Many of the different species of the cuckows of this country lay white eggs; the whole of those included in the genus Chal. cites produce white eggs, the birds upon which they are parasitic are the various species of Fringillidae, they do not, however, [...]
[...] white unspotted appearance, but for their size also, which is nearly twice that of the Cape canary, and considerably larger than the eggs of the ‘Streep Koppie.’ “I have also found the egg of the ‘Dedric' in the nest of the green Sun-bird (Mectarinia famosa), where it was also much [...]
[...] “I have also found the egg of the ‘Dedric' in the nest of the green Sun-bird (Mectarinia famosa), where it was also much larger than the grey speckled eggs of the sun-bird, and likewise dissimilar from its pure white colour. - “The egg of Cuculus solitarius is of a dark mahogany brown, [...]
[...] norius phanicurus), when its difference was obvious both in size and colour, my son (F. H. Barber) found one of these dark brown eggs in the nest of the Cape canary 1 and despite its great dissimilarity compared to the small white speckled eggs of that bird, the work of incubation was quietly going on. [...]
[...] posed upon. Birds in general have no suspicion on this score, they suspect no trickery, and are therefore willing to incubate any kind of egg, provided it is not too large to fill up the nest. I think I told you how I had occasionally changed the eggs of various species of birds from one nest to another, making fearful [...]
[...] A REMEDY has been found for the “borer" that ravages Indian and Ceylon coffee plantations, by applying carbolic acid before the eggs are hatched. [...]
[...] Cuckow’s Eggs.-E.D. LAYARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Modification of Colour in the Cushat.—W. C. McIntosh . Colour Blindness. --R. B. HAyward . . . . . . . . . .314 [...]
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