Reference for Chullin 280:12

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What if the male bird was upon the eggs and the dam was upon the male?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the law of letting the dam go does not apply to a male bird sitting on the eggs (v. supra) , is the male bird deemed an interposition between the dam and the eggs, or not? khx,');">⁸</span>

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