Spatula clypeata, Duck egg
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Description:
One of six northern shoveler eggs (see CBE1177 - CBE1182), (possibly) collected from the Jordan River swamp, Vancouver Island. The eggs had been incubated when collected and identified when the bird was flushed. Per Lindsay's slip, the nest was "well built of grass and lined with down. Under a sage bush. Half a mile from water." These eggs are part of the Sprunt Collection with incomplete locality data; B. C. seems to correspond with available information, including the breeding range. Utah is the other possibility.
Synonym: Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758
Original Set Mark: 1/6 Lindsay Collection
Sprunt Collection
- Site: Canada; British Columbia
- Site Number: NH13G
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula clypeata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1181
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