Uria lomvia, Auk egg
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Description:
A thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia arra) egg collected from St. Paul's Island, one of the Pribilof Islands off the coast of mainland Alaska. It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 6/1, Macoun Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: AK; Alaska
- Site Number: NH67
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Uria
- Species: Uria lomvia
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8891
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