Uria aalge, Auk egg
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Description:
One California murre (Uria aalge californica) egg collected by an unknown collector for A. M. Shields. Shields noted that the egg was "simply deposited on bare rocks." It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 6, Shields Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: CA; Humboldt Co.
- Site Number: NH54Y
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Uria
- Species: Uria aalge
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8886
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