Alca torda, Auk egg
Description:
A razorbill (Alca torda torda) egg collected from Labrador by W. A. Frazar in July 1884. Incubation of the egg had begun prior to collection. A note with the egg (Crandall slip) states there was "no nest, eggs laid on the bare rocks in cracks and crevices." Later acquired by Arthur T. Wayne.
Original set mark: 60/1; Crandall collection.
- Site: Canada
- Site Number: NH13
- 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: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE7072
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