Eggs

Pyrope pyrope

• 24.5 × 18.5 mm

White to cream-white, glossy, sparingly marked with roundish spots and small blotches of deep purplish red and blackish brown.

Sources of information

Size

Average of 50 eggs: Schönwetter, M. 1960–1992. Handbuch der Oologie (ed. W. Meise), Lieferung 15. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin., p. 88.

Description

Oates & Reid 1903 (BM Egg Catalogue vol 3); supporting: Nehrkorn 1899 (Katalog der Eiersammlung).
Drawing checked against a photo: de la Peña 2025, Aves Argentinas tomo 9, p. 384.

Shape

Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).

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