Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three Franklin's gull eggs that were a quarter of the way through their incubation when they were collected from Stobart Lake, south east of Strathmore (see CBE1976 - CBE1978). The "nest were piles of reeds in reed beds, built above 3 1/2 ft. of water. Thousands of gulls nesting in the reeds in the lake," (Shier's slip). Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.

Synonym: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831
Original set mark: 2-65 Shier Collection
Cutts Collection