Ptychoramphus aleuticus, Auk egg
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Description:
A Cassin's auklet egg collected from the Farrallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, California. Porter noted it was freshly laid at the time of collection "on the ground in a hole excavated in the soft dirt." Later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 2/1, Porter Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: CA; San Francisco
- Site Number: NH54T
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Ptychoramphus
- Species: Ptychoramphus aleuticus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8877
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