shagreen-green

Updated: May 16, 2025

The female lays from three to five large eggs of a shagreen-green colour, upon a bed of leaves. The male and female sit alternately for about a month upon them. The articles we saw exposed for sale in the fair were chiefly pearl shell and the tripang, known also as the beche-de-mer; as also tortoise-shell, edible birds' nests, pearls, and birds of paradise, or rather their stuffed skins.

William Henry Giles Kingston - In the Eastern Seas