Plegadis chihi, Heron egg
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Description:
One of four white-faced ibis eggs that were collected when their incubation had been 1/3 of the way along (see CBE2724 - CBE2727). The nest was "of tule on down tule over water," (Eschenburg slip).
Original Set Mark: 32-4 Eschenburg Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: CA; Merced Co.
- Site Number: NH54O
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Family: Threskiornithidae
- Genus: Plegadis
- Species: Plegadis chihi
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marsh Birds
- Object Id: CBE2727
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