Capito auratus
- 22.6 × 16.4 mm (estimated)
- Speculative: we haven't found documented measurements of this egg yet, so we estimated its size from related birds.
- Clutch: c. 4 eggs
Breeds in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
White, unmarked.
Sources of information
- Size
- Estimated, no measurements found: the median length and width of measured eggs of the same family: Eubucco bourcierii, Eubucco versicolor.
- Description
- Sclater & Salvin (c. 1868), Proc. Zool. Soc. London (notes of E. Bartlett, eastern Peru), as OCR at Univ. Utah digital library.
- 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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