Podilymbus podiceps, Grebe egg

Description:

One of six pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps podiceps, Linnaeus 1758) eggs collected from Magnolia Gardens in Charleston County, South Carolina (see CBE1778-CBE1783). Collector Ernest Cutts noted the eggs had been freshly laid at time of collection and the nest was composed "of reed stems and other decaying vegetation floating in duck pond among reeds and marsh grass."

Original set mark: 60.11, Cutts collection