Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelican egg
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Description:
One of three California brown pelican eggs (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) collected from San Martin, Baja California when freshly incubated and positively identified (see CBE2321 - CBE2323). Their nest was made up of "a few sticks on top of a low bush," (Anthony slip). The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 1 22/3 88 Anthony Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Mexico
- Site Number: NH10A
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Procellariiformes
- Family: Diomedeidae
- Genus: Pelecanus
- Species: Pelecanus occidentalis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE2323
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