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Fig. 57. Outside view of a compound egg which was composed of 

 two albumen masses partly separated at the level of the seam in the shell 

 by an incomplete egg membrane. The larger component contained a 

 normal yolk with a slight puncture in the yolk membrane. The smaller 

 one contained a drop of yolk which apparently came from the yolk in 

 the other part. 



Fig. 58. Inside view of shell of the egg shown in Fig. 57- 



