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Show SPECKLED EGGS COST HIM $1,009 New York, Nov. 21. The speckled eggs of the common red breasted snipe hae Just been added to the collection col-lection of J L. Childs. of Floral Park. L. I., at an expense of $1.00 Com-mon Com-mon as Is the bird on Ix)ng Island, its mottled olive-brown eggs are veiy j hard to get hold of. The snipe lays her eggs In rock crannies up In the Arctic circle and Child's $1,000 egs were gathered by Eskimos Iji the Extreme Ex-treme northern part of Iceland The eggs are known to science as "triuna canal u3." Commander Peary, on his trip to the north ple. got a few of them and on his return presented them to the American Museum of Natural History. His-tory. Childs is said to have the finest collection of rare eggs in America. |