In one pair the shell-blotches of washed-out purple are spread over the whole egg, and the surface-spots and clashes of Carneous red are also equally spread over the whole shell.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Sometimes they are dull white with brick-red spots openly disposed in form of a rude ring at the larger end; at other times the spots are rufescent claret, with duller indistinct ones appearing through the shell; others are of a deep Carneous hue, clouded and coarsely blotched with deep rufescent claret; while again some are faint Carneous with large irregular blotches of rufous clay with duller ones beneath the shell."
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
A Sucket is made in like manner of the Carneous substance of stalks of Lettice.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby