Spatula cyanoptera, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine northern cinnamon teal (Spatula cyanoptera septentrionalium) eggs collected from San Joaquin Valley, Los Banos County (see CBE2441-CBE2449). The eggs had been laid a moderate time prior and contained small embryos. The nest was made "of grass with small amount of breast down, in heavy cover of grass on the bank of a canal," (Eschenburg Slip).
Synonym: Anas cyanoptera septentrionalium Snyder & Lumsden, 1951
Original Set Mark: 498 Eschenburg Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: CA; California
- Site Number: NH54
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula cyanoptera
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2446
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