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The texture is fine jind close, but distinctly more porous than the 

 uverags duck's egg ; and the eggs, in consequence, are very liable to 

 discdloration. The surface is smooth, but has no gloss. 



Hume's eggs varied in length between 1'9" and 2'2" and in breadth 

 between 1'4" anl 1'54''. I have two eggs 2-25" long, but in all others 

 both breadth and length come within these extremes ; on the other 

 hand, whereas Hume's series averaged 2*1" by 1-49", mine average 

 2'12" by 1'45" showing them, as I have already said, to be rather 

 narrower and long proportionately. 



(To be continued,) 



