Larus californicus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three California gull eggs (CBE8920 - CBE8922) collected by an unknown collector for W. F. Webb from Pyramid Lake. Webb noted that the nest was made "of course sticks, grass and feathers on top of low situated bushes." The eggs were freshly laid at the time of collection and later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 1/3, Webb Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: NV; Washoe Co.
- Site Number: NH66C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus californicus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE8921
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