 | Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1851 - 348 pages
...person who has seen their nest has no difficulty in finding it again ; the eggs thus deposited are lefl to be hatched by the heat of the sun, and this the natives assert requires between three and four months to complete. Mr. Motley himself found upon breaking... | |
 | Botany - 1853 - 562 pages
...shells and rubbish, so that a person who has seen their nest has no difficulty in finding it again; the eggs thus deposited are left to be hatched by the heat of the sun, and this the natives assert requires between three and four months to complete. Mr. Motley himself found upon breaking... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...the beach, just within the jungle, and scarcely above high-water mark, and appeared to have been need for many years. The boatmen seemed to have no clue...and four months to complete : those obtained from tin's heap were brought home and buried in a box of sand, and a mouth or two afterwards it was discovered... | |
 | Biology - 1856 - 510 pages
...when frequented at all j they sought for nearly half an hour in vain before they found one, and then got about a dozen together ; they were buried at a...astonishingly hard. The eggs thus deposited are left to be batched by the heat of the sun, and this, the Malays assert, requires between three and four months... | |
 | Kirk Munroe - Canoes and canoeing - 1905 - 372 pages
...from twenty to forty thick-shelled, pure white eggs, about the size of the largest goose-eggs. These are left to be hatched by the heat of the sun and of the decomposing mass surrounding them. When they break their shells, the little fellows immediately... | |
 | 1851 - 324 pages
...shells and rubbish, so that a person who has seen their nest has no difficulty in finding it again; the eggs thus deposited are left to be hatched by the heat of the sun, and this the natives assert requires between three and four months to complete. Mr. Motley himself found upon breaking... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1851 - 370 pages
...shells and rubbish, so that a person who has seen their nest has no difficulty in finding it again; the eggs thus deposited are left to be hatched by the heat of the sun, and this the natives assert requires between three and four months to complete. Mr. Motley himself found upon breaking... | |
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The boatmen seemed to have no clue to what part of the hillock contained eggs, hut said that they were never without some, when frequented at all ; they sought for nearly half an hour in vain before they found one, and then they got about a dozen together... 