...general habits. I was tanght to believe implicitly that it " laid its eggs in the sand of the desert, and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun," a process which would be a good imitation of roasting, if, as it might easily, the temperature of the...

...hanging up in the curiosity-shops of London. It was formerly supposed that the bird deposited the eggs in the sand, and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun ; and in Job we read how the ostrich " leaveth her eggs in the earth, and forgetteth that the foot...

...long known to inhabit Celebes, but not fully 1 Antonio Pigafetta, one of the survivors of Magellan's voyage, records in his journal, under date of April...and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun (Premier voyage autour du monde, ed. Amorctti, Paris, AR ix. 88). More than a hundred years later the...

...long known to inhabit Celebes, but not fully 1 Antonio Pigafetta, one of the survivors of Magellan's voyage, records in his journal, under date of April...and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun (Premier voyage autour du monde, ed. Amormi, Paris, AR ix. 88). More than a hundred years later the...

...voyage, records in his tournai, under date oí April 1521, among the peculiarities of the Pnilippine Islands, then first discovered by Europeans, the existence...about the size of a fowl, which laid its eggs, as big asa duck's, in the sand, and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun (Premier voyage autour...

...long known to inhabit Celebes, bul not fully 1 Antonio Pigafetta, one of the survivors of Magellan's voyage, records in his journal, under date of April...bird there, about the size of a fowl, which laid its «ggs, as big as a duck's, in the sand, and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun (Premier...