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at liberty will proceed again to lay *. It is a 
practice much recommended by bird-fancyers to 
take away the eggs as the hen lays them, fub- 
Jdituting an ivory one in their place, that the 
whole may be hatched in one day. When the 
l-aft egg is laid, the ivory ones are removed and 
the others replaced. In general, the time of 
laying is in the morning, about fix or ieven 
o’clock : it is laid, that when this happens an 
hour later it is owing to the hen’s being lick ; 
the eggs being thus laid in regular fucceflion f, 
it is eafv to take them away the moment they 
are laid. However, this practice is more adap- 
ted to our own convenience than to that of the 
bird, and is contrary to the economy of nature; 
it makes the mother part with a great deal of 
heat unneceflarily, and burdens her at once 
with five or fix young, which incommode her 
* In giving the eggs of one hen to others, we muff be 
fure that they are all good ; the hen fpangled birds that get 
clear or bad eggs, will of themfelves throw them out of the 
nelt ; and when this is fo deep that they cannot effect it, 
they never leave finking them with their bill tdl they are 
broken, which fpoils the other eggs, injures the neft, and 
makes the whole become abortive : the females of the other 
varieties wifi fit upon clear eggs. Father Bugot. 
f The eggs arc all laid at the fame hour except the laft, 
which is fome hours, and at other times a day later. This 
laft egg is always finaller than the reft, and I have been af- 
fured that the bird it contains is always a cock. I wilh the 
were well afccrtcined. 
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