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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 426

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 426 — YOUNG OSTRICHES AND EGGS IN A BOX PEN. old birds sit on eight to ten eggs, which are very large,weighing from three to four pounds each. It takes aboutsix weeks for the eggs to hatch. Sometimes when it rains the eggs are taken from thenest and put in large incubators, as the ostrich will not siton… … A FULL-GROWN OSTRICH. chickens. The mother bird, being gray, cannot be seen kithe daytime, and the father, being black, cannot be seenvery well at night, so the mother sits on the nest duringthe day and the father at night, which helps to hide thenest. The little ostriches are about the size of a…

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