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Measurements of Cuckoo Eggs
Description
Lengths of cuckoo eggs laid in other birds' nests
Format
A data frame with 120 observations on the following 2 variables.
Bird | Type of bird nest: mdw_pipit (meadow pipit), tree_pipit, |
hedge_sparrow, robin, wagtail, or wren |
|
Length | Cuckoo egg length (in mm) |
Details
Cuckoos are knows to lay their eggs in the nests of other (host) birds. The eggs are then adopted and hatched by the host birds. The data give the lengths of cuckoo eggs found in nests of various other bird species.
Source
Downloaded from DASL at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/cuckoodat.html
References
"The Egg of Cuculus Canorus. An Enquiry into the Dimensions of the Cuckoo's Egg and the Relation of the Variations to the Size of the Eggs of the Foster-Parent, with Notes on Coloration", by Oswald H. Latter, Biometrika, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan., 1902), pp. 164-176.