The eggs were broad ovals, somewhat compressed towards one end, and of the regular corvine type-a pretty pale green ground, blotched, smeared, streaked, spotted, and clouded, nowhere very profusely but most densely about the large end, with a greenish or olive-brown and pale sepia.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
The eggs, generally five in number, are of the usual corvine green, blotched, spotted, and streaked, as a rule, most densely about the large end with umber mingled with sepia-brown.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
In the long struggle between human ingenuity and corvine sagacity, it is doubtful which has thus far obtained the upper hand.
"A Rambler's lease"
Bradford Torrey