Cepphus grylle, Auk egg
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Description:
One of two black guillemot (Cepphus grylle arcticus) eggs collected from the town of Husavik in northern Iceland (see CBE1829-CBE1830). Collector W. F. Palsson noted incubation had started by the time of collection and the egg was in a "hole amongst loose boulders under a sea cliff. The eggs were resting on fine sand." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 58/3, Palsson collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Cepphus
- Species: Cepphus grylle
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1829
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