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egg-shell — with feelings of regret, I should imagine, for 

 it would have been hatched in a day or two. The snapshot 

 was taken by Mr. C. R. Gurney, a few minutes after the 

 Gannet — which is the tojD one on the left — had returned 

 to gaze upon her broken egg.* 



* Bass Gannets show very little discrimiuation about their eggs 

 according to Mr. J. M. Campbell, who has for experiment sometimes 

 exchanged an egg, in full view of the birds, for a Pigeon's egg, on which 

 the incubating Gannet has unconcernedly resmned her position. That 

 they are able to discriminate between an imported egg and their own, he 

 considers extremely doubtful. (" The Scotsman," September, 1911). 



