Southern Fulmar Egg (tentative ID) (Fulmarus glacialoides)

bird egg

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

Southern Fulmar Egg (tentative ID) (Fulmarus glacialoides); native to the Southern Hemisphere, possibly collected on Tristan da Cunha before 1885. One of two southern fulmar egg shells in collection. Medium-sized, white, with faint brown spotting, a small hole where the egg was drained, and the number 1 written in pencil. Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.

2020.35.9