The egg of the aepyornis, in the United States National Museum, is said to be the largest egg in the world. It is twelve inches long and ten mcnes wide, and its shell is nearly a quarter of an inch thick and as hard as a rock. It can hold the contents of six ostrich eggs, or 148 hens’ eggs, or 300,000 eggs of the humming-bird.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 5
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