As I perceived her coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree.

当我察觉它来了，我爬着靠近蛋，这样我就可以爬到这只鸟的一条腿前面，他的腿像树干一样粗大。

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A low angle perspective of the tower in Astana which simbolises the Kazakh myth of the magic bird Samruk, who laid a golden egg on the tree of life

小角度仰拍阿斯塔纳的高塔。 它象征哈萨克人传说中的神鸟Samruk，它在生命之树上下了一颗金色的蛋。

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The fearless bird lived on the island of Mauritius until humans came along in the 1600s with their tree-felling tendencies and egg-eating pets and livestock.

这种无所畏惧的鸟类原本生活在毛里求斯岛，人类于17世纪到达该地，并带来了伐树风潮及喜食鸟蛋的宠物和家畜，最终导致了渡渡鸟的消失。

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Glasgow's missing egg, which features a red and yellow tree design, was taken from Buchanan Street in the early hours of Friday morning and organisers hope it will also be retrieved.

BBC: Charity egg goes missing from Glasgow city centre

Let the neighbors rig up their 40-foot, live-candle Christmas tree or present little pots of caviar so precious that each egg is like the last stand of an endangered species.

FORBES: It's a beautiful thing for the holidays.