Larus californicus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three California gull eggs collected from Burns, Oregon. The incubation is noted as "advanced' and the nest is described as being "a large nest of grass and tule stalks mostly the latter. Very well cupped. Placed on a muddy beach of an island." (Currier Slip) The egg identification was made based on observing the parents at the nest. All three eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts. (CBE1905 - CBE1907)
Original set mark: D, Currier Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: OR; Harney Co.
- Site Number: NH60H
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus californicus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1905
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