Uria lomvia, Auk egg

Description:

A thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia arra) egg collected from St. Paul Island (Pribilof Islands) in the central district of Alaska. This egg was originally collected by H. Heath in July 1910 who noted it was showing blood, suggesting it had been laid recently. Heath had collected it for another ornithologist, Eschenburg [?], who noted the egg had been laid on a "bare shelf on rocky shelf." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.

Original set mark: 26, Eschenburg Collection