Gavia pacifica, Loon egg
Description:
One of two Pacific loon (Gavia pacifica) eggs collected from Hooper Bay in the northwestern district of Alaska (see CBE1809-CBE1810) Collector William Stribling noted incubation had started and the nest was "placed near a large lake about 3 mi - 4.83 km. back of village. Nest a heap of decayed wet vegetation." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Previously attributed to "Gavia arctiva pacifica."
Original set mark: 656, Stribling collection
- Site: AK; Alaska
- Site Number: NH67
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Gaviiformes
- Family: Gaviidae
- Genus: Gavia
- Species: Gavia pacifica
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1810
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