Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross Egg (Thalassarche chlororhynchos)

bird egg

ZOOLOGICAL SPECIMENS
Africa, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Tristan da Cunha
before 1885
egg

Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross Egg (Thalassarche chlororhynchos); species native to the Southern Hemisphere, likely collected on Tristan da Cunha before 1885. Medium-large, yellowed-white egg with a few brown blotches, a small hole where the egg was drained, and the number 12 in pencil. Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.

2020.35.6