cuckoohosts: Comparison of cuckoo eggs with host eggs
Description
These data compare mean length, mean breadth, and egg color,
between cuckoos and their hosts.
Usage
cuckoohosts
Arguments
source
Latter, O.H., 1902.
The egg of {cuculus canorus. an inquiry into the dimensions of
the cuckoo's egg and the relation of the variations to the size of the eggs
of the foster-parent, with notes on coloration, &c.
{Biometrika, 1:164--176.
}
cuckoohosts
str(cuckoohosts)
plot(cuckoohosts)
with(cuckoohosts,
plot(c(clength,hlength),c(cbreadth,hbreadth),col=rep(1:2,c(6,6))))datasets
Details
Although from the same study that generated data in the data frame
cuckoos, the data do not match precisely. The cuckoo egg
lengths and breadths are from the tables on page 168, the host egg
lengths and breadths from Appendix IV on page 176, and the color
match counts from the table on page 171.