Alle alle, Auk egg
Description:
A freshly laid dovekie (Alle alle alle) egg collected from Grimsey Island, Iceland. It was collected for C.H. Gowland by an unknown collector. The nest was located "in space behind large boulder." Later acquired by Alexander Sprunt.
Original set mark: H 529, Gowland Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Alle
- Species: Alle alle
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1599
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