Spatula cyanoptera, Duck egg
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Description:
One of seven (originally eight) northern cinnamon teal eggs (Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium) that were collected when their incubation was fresh and identified when the bird was flushed (see CBE1460 - CBE1466). The nest was "of grasses lined with down only on top edge of nest. Nest placed in the long marsh grass beside water run (Treganza slip)."
Original mark set: 110/8 Treganza Collection
Sprunt Collection
- Site: UT; Salt Lake Co.
- Site Number: NH61G
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula cyanoptera
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1464
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