Note Book VII. Chap. 4. Note (a) — BOOK VII.

[a] The Chicken is form’d out of, and nourish’d by the White alone, till it be grown great. The Yolk serves for the Chicken’s Nourishment, after it is well grown, and partly also after it is hatch’d. For a good Part of the Yolk remains after Exclusion, being receiv’d into the Chicken’s Belly; and being there reserv’d, as in a Store-house, is by the Appendicula, or Ductus intestinalis, as by a Funnel, convey’d into the Guts, and serves instead of Milk, &c. Willugh. Ornith. L. 1. c. 3. Ipsum animal ex albo liquore Ovi corporatur. Cibus ejus in lutco est. Plin. L. 10. c. 53.

Aristotle saith, The long sharp Eggs bring Females; the round ones, with a larger Compass at the sharper End, Males. Hist. An. L. 6. c. 2. After which, he tells of a Sott at Syracuse, that sate drinking so long, till Eggs were hatch’d; as also of the Custom of Ægypt, of hatching Eggs in Dunghills.