Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg

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Description:

One of three freshly incubated Franklin's gull eggs collected from Stobart Lake within the [Blackfoot Indian Reservation] Siksika Nation (south east of Strathmore) (see CBE1973 - CBE1975). The nest was a "large basket of bulrushes floating in water 3 ft. deep, Thousands of gulls nesting throughtout reedy areas of the Lake," (Kondla's slip). The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.

Synonym: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831
Original Set Mark: 80 Kondla Collection
Cutts Collection