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ONE of my Houdan fowls has laid an egg weighing 7 oz.; her ordinary eggs weigh 2½ oz. I ordered my man to blow the egg in order to preserve the shell, when I was surprised to find that, besides a small yolk and much white of egg, it also contained a perfect ordinary-sized egg. This is now lying loose within the large shell, which latter measures 8¼ inches and 9¼ inches in its two principal circumferences.
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L., E. A Large Egg. Nature 20, 56 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020056d0
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