Larus brachyrhynchus, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three freshly incubated short-billed gull eggs collected from Spenard Lake in Spenard, South Central District. Stribling's slip noted that the nest was "placed on small mound in open tundra approx. 1 mi. = 1.61 km from the lake. Made of small sticks with grass lining." He made a positive identification, how "this bird tried very hard to protect her nest, powerdiving and screaming practically hitting my hat when I was still some distance from her nest." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts (see CBE1929 - CBE1931).
Synonym: Larus canus brachyrhynchus Richardson, 1831
Original set mark: 12, Stribling Collection
Cutts Collection