Ptychoramphus aleuticus, Auk egg
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Description:
A Cassin's auklet egg collected from the Coronado Islands, off the coast of California. Hazelwood noted it was freshly laid at the time of collection and found in a "hole in ground 300 ft above water." It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 33/11, Hazelwood Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Mexico
- Site Number: NH10A
- 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: CBE8878
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