Item MM 47246 Glass Negative - Group at Camp Site, by A.J. Campbell, Phillip Island (?), Victoria, circa 1900

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Mealtime in a naturalists camp, the box of eggs in the foreground is thought to be mutton bird eggs. Around the area of Bass Strait these are primarily the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris an extremely numerous species generally laying a single egg within a short tunnelled nest hole.