They are all yolk, without any white, which is an indication of their great heat.

Accordingly, the mother does not sit upon them, and they hatch, and the birds scratch their way out from the sand.

When the bird has come out it is as large as a quail, and goes about picking up its food as other birds do after they are grown.

I have seen this with my own eyes, and there must be other eyewitnesses of it in this court.

So marvelous is the character of these birds.