Larus occidentalis, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three western gull eggs (Larus occidentalis occidentalis) collected from Castle Rock Island (see CBE1876 - CBE1878). The Stevens slip noted their incubation had started a week prior to collection and the nest was "a slight depression in ground, lined with grasses, behind bush to be out of wind." Their identification was made after observing a parent flying from the nest as the collector approached. The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 25/2, Stevens Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: CA; Del Norte Co.; Crescent City
- Site Number: NH54Ua
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus occidentalis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1876
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