Fratercula cirrhata, Puffin egg
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Description:
A tufted puffin egg collected from Farralone Island off the coast of San Francisco. Incubation for this egg had begun, and Scheider noted that the "egg laid on bare ground in a hole in a cliff 100 ft from sea level." it was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 4/1, Schneider Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: CA; San Francisco
- Site Number: NH54T
- 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: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8873
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