Soft-Plumaged Petrel Egg (tentative ID) (Pterodroma mollis)

bird egg

ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMENS
Africa, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tristan da Cunha
before 1885
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Soft-Plumaged Petrel Egg (tentative ID) (Pterodroma mollis); species native to the Southern Hemisphere, likely collected on Tristan da Cunha before 1885. Small, cream white egg shell with faint dappling, the number 11 written in pencil, and a small hole where the egg was drained. Overall: 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in.

2020.35.5