Fratercula cirrhata, Puffin egg

Description:

A tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) egg collected from Castle Rock Island by collector Lawrence T. Stevens. The egg is noted to have been incubated for one week with identification made after observing the parent fly from the burrow. Stevens described the nest as, "in burrow four feet deep in steep side of island. A few pieces of dried grass in nesting cavity." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.

Original set mark: 2528, Stevens collection