Bird egg shell: Cook’s petrel, Tītī, Pterodroma cookii

Maker
Shakespear, Frances Isabella Blanche (b.1879, d.1964)
 Production date
1902
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Description
Shell of a Cook’s petrel, Pterodroma cookii, egg which has been blown and has one end damaged. Off white coloured shell with some staining. A blowing hole has been drilled in the shell. Ink inscription around blowing hole on egg: Cooks petrel / 20.7.1902 / Curtis Isle / "HINEMOA" / J.B.
Part of a collection of predominantly Pacific region sea shells and New Zealand seabird eggs held by Frances Shakespear. This egg collected from Curtis Island in the Kermadecs, probably by Captain John Bollons on a voyage of GSS HINEMOA, the government vessel, while servicing the lighthouse on the island.
Cook's petrels no longer breed on Curtis Island.
Accession number
2015.232.144
Museum System ID
36743
Collection type
Objects
Collection
Shakespear
Classification

Avian
Maker and role
Shakespear, Frances Isabella Blanche (b.1879, d.1964): Collector
Media/Materials
egg shell: 0 - Whole
Measurement details
Length (mm): 50mm (3/16ft): 0 - Whole
Diameter (mm): 35mm (1/8ft): 0 - Whole
Production place and notes
Curtis Island, Kermadec Islands, Aotearoa New Zealand
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