Spatula clypeata, Duck egg

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Description:

One of seven freshly incubated northern shoveler eggs collected from a nest at Crane Lake "of down in grass on prairie" (Bent slip). (see CBE7170 - CBE7176)

Synonym: Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758
Original set mark: 4/7 Bent Collection
Wayne Collection