Abstract
We present information about the private egg collection "Ronald Runnacles" as part of the Ornithological Collection at the Museo de La Plata (División Zoología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata). Mr. Ronald Runnacles was an argentine naturalist who lived in General Lavalle, Buenos Aires province. He devoted his short life to the study of birds, mainly waterbirds of central-east Argentina. He started very young to collect eggs in General Lavalle for his private egg collection, but his fieldwork was stopped prematurely at 26 years old after called of the British government to join in the World War II in 1941. He died a year later at the battle fronts in Holland. His family donated years after the complete egg collection to the Museo de La Plata, which generated a significant contribution to the existing egg collection, as it includes valuable information about 17 orders and 44 families of birds that nest in central-east Argentina.
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