. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . f thetip black for a less anel less distance. The bill is greenish-yellow with a dark ring-like band in front of the nostril. Theyoung is very much mottled, with blackish and grayish colorsnearly everywhere. Length, 19; wintr, 14f (13|-15|) ; tall, G; tarsus, 2J; culmen. America at large, more common in the interior ; breeding and Newfoundland northward, and wintering from LongIsland to Mexico. 21. Laughing Gull (.iS. Liiriis (((rirlUa). — A rath
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush . f thetip black for a less anel less distance. The bill is greenish-yellow with a dark ring-like band in front of the nostril. Theyoung is very much mottled, with blackish and grayish colorsnearly everywhere. Length, 19; wintr, 14f (13|-15|) ; tall, G; tarsus, 2J; culmen. America at large, more common in the interior ; breeding and Newfoundland northward, and wintering from LongIsland to Mexico. 21. Laughing Gull (.iS. Liiriis (((rirlUa). — A rather large, ])lack-headed gull,with dark pearl-:4r:iy mantle, thelower neck, breast,belly, and tailwhite, and the pri-maries, except thesmall tips of theinner ones, winter, the headand throat arewhite, with more orless of grayish notes soundlike the odd andexcited laughter of an Indian squaw. (Black-headed Gull.) Length, 16^; wing, 13; tail, 5; tarsus, 2; culmen, 1|. Atlantic andGulf coasts of the United States ; breeding from Iexas to Maine, andwintering from South Carolina to northern South Laughing Gull FAM. LX. TFIiNS AND GULLS 333 22. Franklins Gull (59. lArus franklinii).—A western,small, black-headed gull, pearl-gray mantle, and the lowerparts and the tail Avhite. The whole head and throat are sooty-black, and the lower parts are often rosy tinted. The firstprimary is mainly white, but the outer web is black except atthe tip; the second has a black mark on the inner web, anda black strip on the outer web near the tip; the third to thesixth are tipped with white. In winter, the head and neckare white. The yoniuj is much marked with grays and gull is not found on the Atlantic coa3t. Length, 14; wing, \\\; tail, 4J ; tarsus, 1 j ; cuhnen, 1{. InteriorNorth America, chiefly froni tlie Kocky Mountains to the MississippiRiver; breeding from Iowa northward, and wintering from tlie SouthernStates to Peru. 23. Bonapartes Gull (r)0. Lhrus
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