Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three freshly incubated Franklin's gull eggs collected from Stobart Lake within the [Blackfoot Indian Reservation] Siksika Nation (south east of Strathmore). Kondla's slip described the nest as a "large basket of bulrushes floating in water 3 ft. deep" and also noted that "thousands of gulls nesting throughtout reedy areas of the Lake." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.

Synonym: Larus pipixcan
Original set mark: 80, Kondla Collection
Cutts Collection