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Description: | There are several substantial bird egg collections in the Zoology Museum; the main one being R. Hay Fenton's collection of 10, 478 eggs (see individual collection-level description for more details). The Zoology Museum also owns a collection compiled by Harry Milne. This collection contains 127 clutches from a variety of birds. Most of the clutches were produced by seabirds and ducks, but there are also clutches of eggs from Galliformes, various Passerines (including tits, crossbills, wrens and chaffinches) and birds of prey. One of the largest clutches in Milne's collection is a clutch of 15 shelduck eggs from Culbin, Moray. There are also 12 pairs of sandwich tern eggs from Culbin. Another large collection is the Ernest. G. Meaton collection (273 clutches - see individual collection-level description for more details). The Zoology Museum also owns the Farquhar egg collection: a large collection of bird eggs contained in one large and two small cabinets and three boxes. The museum also owns a small collection of eggs put together by Thomas Tait; a friend of the Scottish ornithologist Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson (1890 - 1977).
Super collection: Zoology Museum.
Sub - collections: Hay Fenton egg collection ; Meaton egg collection.
Objects: Bird eggs from many orders, including Anseriformes ; Charadriiformes ; Columbiformes ; Cuculiformes ; Falconiformes ; Galliformes ; Passeriformes ; Psittaciformes. | Subjects: | Zoology bird eggs. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUZ:CLD13 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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