Fratercula cirrhata, Puffin egg
Description:
A tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) egg collected from Brookings, Oregan by Lawrence T. Stevens who noted it to have been incubated for two weeks. He also described the nest as, "in burrow, three feet back in soft dirt on small island off shore. A few pieces of dead grass placed in a small depression." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 1361, Stevens collection
- Site: OR; Curry Co.; Brookings
- Site Number: NH60Da
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Fratercula
- Species: Fratercula cirrhata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1820
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