Chroicocephalus philadelphia, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three Bonaparte's gull eggs collected from Hood Lake near Spenard (see CBE1982 - CBE1984). The nest was "near top of Alaska spruce tree, about 18 ft. tall. Made of Alaska spruce twigs and lined with black spruce moss. Bird very noisy and disturbed when I neared her nest." The eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection. They were later acquired by Ernest Cutts ," (Stribling slip).

Synonym: Larus philadelphia (Ord, 1815)
Original set mark: 34 Stribling Collection
Cutts Collection