How birds began to lay eggs

Motif

How birds began to lay eggs.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Periodic habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as A2486.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Why animals lay eggs as they do. (Cf. A2431, A2433.6.1.2.)

Filed beside it

Why raven lays eggs in March. (Cf. A2251.1.)Why bustard hatches but two eggs. (Cf. A2284.2.)Why dove lays but two eggs. (Cf. A2247.4.)

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