Larus delawarensis, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) eggs (CBE979 - CBE981) collected from the coast of Labradorin July 1884 by [M.A.?] Mazar for W.B. Webster. Webster describes the nesting site as "on hedge."
Original set mark: 2/3; Webster collection.
- Site: Canada
- Site Number: NH13
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus delawarensis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE979
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