Alca torda, Auk egg
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Description:
One razorbill egg (Alca torda torda) that was collected by an unknown collector for S. A. Wallis. It was collected from St. Kilda Island off the coast of Scotland and had been freshly laid at time of collection. It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: R19, Wallis Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Europe; Scotland
- Site Number: NH8M
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Alca
- Species: Alca torda
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8892
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