Dendrocygna bicolor, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine fulvous whistling duck eggs that had been freshly laid at the time of collection and were positively identified (see CBE775 - CBE783). The nest was composed of "grasses and small rootlets, lined with fine grasses and a little down," (Shields slip). The clutch was later acquired by Alexander Sprunt, Jr.
Original Set Mark: 13/9 Shields Collection
Sprunt Collection
- Site: CA; Merced Co.
- Site Number: NH54O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Dendrocygna
- Species: Dendrocygna bicolor
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE775
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