Natural history and antiquities of Selborne (1875)
White, Gilbert, 1720-1793, Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880, Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895, Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889, James Burn & Company, binder · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 409
below shows the eggs of the common snake just ready to hatch out. I found them ina dunghill in Aldermaston Park, Reading, when on a visit to my hospitable and kind friend, Higford Burr. I have thus described them in my “Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist :’”—“ Lifting up the straw most… … Snakes’ eggs are not quite so large as a blackbird’s; they are round at both ends like a sugar-pium. They have no hard shell like a hen’s egg, but the shell is composed of a soft elastic substance, like thin wash-leather. Some of the eggs were lying quite separate. The greater part were, however,…
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