Chroicocephalus philadelphia, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three Bonaparte's gull eggs collected from Hood Lake near Spenard. Stribling's slip noted the nest was "near top of Alaska spruce tree, about 18 ft. tall. Made of Alaska spruce twigs and lined with black spruce moss. Bird very noisy and disturbed when I neared her nest." The eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection. They were later acquired by Ernest Cutts (see CBE1982 - CBE1984).

Synonym: Larus philadelphia
Original set mark: 34, Stribling Collection
Cutts Collection