Larus smithsonianus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three American herring gull eggs collected by unknown collector and later acquired by Ernest Tabor (see CBE8929 - CBE8931).
Synonym: Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862
Original set mark: H
Tabor Collection
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus smithsonianus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE8929
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