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06 #$$THE NATURAL HISTORY 

lours with thofe they have fhed, but this is often the. ‘ 
cafe with birds of other kinds. | 
Hens. frequently lay almoft every day. In 
Malacca, which is in Siam in Afia, they often — 
Jay twice aday. Warmth is very necellary at 
that time ; and they will produce many eggs dur- 
ing the a weather in winter, if they are kept 
in a ftable upon warm horfelitter. As foon as 7 
the Hen has laid, fhe makes a noife which is 
talled cackling. 
_ Eggs, as foon as they said. oe to give cus of 
moifture through the fhell, they lofe fome grains 
in weight every day, and in time {poil, either for 
producing Chickens or for eating : indeed the 

defs | frefh an ege is, the longer it is in being - 
hatched. Thofe who are accuftomed to raife 
poultry, prefer new laid eggs, and we do not 
find that when a Hen makes a neft unobferved, 
re al a z 
eae eae SM Sn oe rns a pitas tee 
and lays her eggs undifturbed, that the firft laid : 
are hatched fooner than the laft; though they 
mutt have been fat upon for fometime, perhaps 
every day, fince they were laid. In order to pre- 
ferve eggs from fpoiling, it is ufual to cover the 
fhell with butter, or with fome greafy fubftance ; 
by thefe means they have been kept good for : 
fome months, and it is imagined that they night | 
be preferved fo for a year, 
When — 


