Fratercula arctica, Puffin egg
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Description:
A common, or Atlantic, puffin egg collected from Iceland for Walter Raine. Raine noted the "egg laid in crevice in rock. Colony." It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 432/1, Raine Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Fratercula
- Species: Fratercula arctica
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8874
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