Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelican egg
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Description:
One of three Atlantic brown pelican eggs (Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis) collected near Rockville, Deveax Bank when freshly incubated (see CBE2318 - CBE2320). Identified by the nearby birds. The nest was made up "of sticks and reed stems and built up from the ground to a height of 8 inches in a colony on bank at mouth of Edisto River," (Cutts slip).
Original set mark: 58.83 Cutts Collection
- Site: SC; Charleston Co.
- Site Number: NH20
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Procellariiformes
- Family: Diomedeidae
- Genus: Pelecanus
- Species: Pelecanus occidentalis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE2319
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