Show eggs tho the I 1 largest argest birds birdges ses eggs in existence are found on the island of alada gascar belonging to an extinct species known among the naturalists natura lists as aa the Epi Epin norcis ornis or th tb to tall pird bird an egi egg ot of the was offered to the thai magenta Museum of natural history in central I 1 park a few years iad ago which had bad a holding capacity of two gallo loo and equaled in bulk one ona hundred and fifty bens eggs the talker has seen a plaster cost cast of thi this s monster monitor egg gg at the museum the discovery of thena eggs was wait made by a sea captain who sto stopped aped at a port in in the soul southern herat part of madagascar to trade with the natives during his stay thora there the curious dishes which the natives wed used to t 0 carry food and water in attracted his hia attention arld and upon investigation he iia found they were eggs cut in halves and upon being questioned the na me tives informed him that they ob obtained them from the great sand banks some I 1 distance away in the tha interior an offer to purchase some soon retailed in the discovery di covery of others and ad also in fi tiding the bones odthe bird that laid them abe latter the fact tb that at the haico almis waa a giant am among ong birds some of the species at the stature of twelve or thir teen feet the tha price of the origin original i fil egg offered to the museum was three hundred doll dollars firs at tb at rate rate a dozen eggs for foi breakfast wound be rather expensive eating bating Chr chrism iliAh ill at work |