Anas carolinensis, Duck egg
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Description:
One of eight American green-winged teal eggs (damaged) collected when freshly incubated and identified by observing the bird on the nest (CBE2402 - CBE2409). The nest was "a slight hollow in the ground, lined with some grass and a little down. Placed between some small green bushes," (Stevens slip).
Synonym: Anas crecca carolinensis J.F.Gmelin, 1789
Original Set Mark: 2748 Stevens Collection
- Site: UT; Salt Lake Co.; near Salt Lake City
- Site Number: NH61A
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Anas
- Species: Anas carolinensis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2409
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