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Show MUSEUM GETS GIGANTIC EGG PRODUCT OF FLYING ELEPHANT Now York, Fob. 10. Tho largest egg In tho world, eighty times the size of an ordinary hen's egg, Is one of tho latest acquisitions of tho Am-eilcnn Am-eilcnn museum of nuturnl history here. It would not bo clnsBlfied oven by nn unscrupulous denier as "strictly fresh," as tho scientists do claro It was laid 400 years ago. It was popularly known In Madagascar fiom whence It came, as tho pioduct of tho flying elephant, an extinct species spe-cies of roc known as tho nepyornU mnxlmus. Tho egg Is two feet two Inches n round Its shortest circumference. |