Larus marinus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three great black-backed gull eggs (CBE1870 - CBE1872) collected from Tjornes, Iceland. Palsson's slip noted that the eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection. The nest "was on a grassy ledge of a sea cliff some 3 mi. = 4.83km. from Husavik. It was made of some scraps of dry grass." They were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 49/6, Palsson Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus marinus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1871
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