Xema sabini, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three freshly incubated (southern) Sabine's gull eggs collected from Hooper Bay, in the Northwestern District. Stribling's slip described the nest as "a small depression in tundra lined with very little grass. Placed near small pond near the village. Eskimo name: NA-CHA-SCHUNK." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts (see CBE1988 - CBE1990).
Synonym: Xema sabini woznesenskii Portenko, 1939
Original set mark: 140, Stribling Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: AK; Alaska
- Site Number: NH67
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Xema
- Species: Xema sabini
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1988
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