Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three Franklin's gull eggs that were a quarter of the way through their incubation when they were collected from Stobart Lake, south east of Strathmore. Shier's slip described the "Nest were piles of reeds in reed beds, built above 3 1/2 ft. of water. Thousands of gulls nesting in the reeds in the lake." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts (see CBE1976 - CBE1978).

Synonym: Larus pipixcan
Original set mark: 2-65, Shier Collection
Cutts Collection