Egg
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
Unknown
Materials
egg
Measurements
32 mm (Width); 47 mm (Length)
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 583690.1
Summary
One of two common land rails eggs. Displayed as 262. Cream egg with dark brown mottling. Largest egg out of the two with finer mottling. Two blow holes, one on the tip and one on the base. Glue stuck on shell.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Marks and inscriptions
On a separate label: Corncrake, Land Rail. (Gallinula crex.)