Leucophaeus atricilla, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three freshly incubated laughing gull eggs (Leucophaeus atricilla atricilla) collected from Bird [Key] Island, Stono Inlet. Cutts noted that the nest was comprised "of reed stems and placed on ground in rank grass on top of sand dune on sand bar used as nesting site this species and hundreds of terns." Cutts made a positive identification by the birds present (see CBE1938 - CBE1940)."

Synonym: Larus atricilla Linnaeus, 1758
Original set mark: 58.105, Cutts Collection
Cutts Collection