Xema sabini, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three freshly incubated Sabine's gull eggs collected near Hooper Village. Stevens' slip described the nest as "a small depression in last year's flattened down grass" and mentioned that the "bird flew from nest at long distance." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Synonym: Xema sabini sabini Sabine, 1819
Original set mark: 1896, Stevens 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: CBE1986
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