So it was, and a jolly blaze there was going to be when the three shovelfuls Sally had enthusiastically heaped on had Incubated, and the time was ripe for the poker.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Five is, I think, the regular complement of eggs; very often I have only found four fully Incubated eggs, and on two or three occasions six have, I know, been taken in one nest, though I never myself met with so many.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
It contained five slightly Incubated eggs, which the old birds evinced the greatest objection to part with, not only flying at the head of the man who removed them, but some little time after they had been removed similarly attacking the man who ascended the tree to look at the nest.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume