Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . Fig. 16.—Western gull (Larus occidentalis), adult in summer plumage. (Prill), and on the islands near Lapush, Wash., June 21, 1897 (Young). The species winters commonly in Shoalwater Bay, Wash., and is not rare at this season north toVancouver Island, BritishColumbia (Mayne). It alsowinters along the wholePacific coast of the UnitedStates and Lower Californiaand was abundant at thehead of the Gulf of Califor-nia, November 25 to Decem-ber 15, 1898 (Price), andFebruary and March, 1905(Stone). The species was takenonce at Socor
Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . Fig. 16.—Western gull (Larus occidentalis), adult in summer plumage. (Prill), and on the islands near Lapush, Wash., June 21, 1897 (Young). The species winters commonly in Shoalwater Bay, Wash., and is not rare at this season north toVancouver Island, BritishColumbia (Mayne). It alsowinters along the wholePacific coast of the UnitedStates and Lower Californiaand was abundant at thehead of the Gulf of Califor-nia, November 25 to Decem-ber 15, 1898 (Price), andFebruary and March, 1905(Stone). The species was takenonce at Socorro Island, Mex-ico (Anthony), and once,September 30, 1889, atLoveland, Colo. (Osburn). [SIBERIAN GULL. Larus affinis Reinhardt. Though normally an inhabitantof the Eastern Hemisphere, theSiberian gull was originally de-. Fig. 17.—Siberian gull (Larus affinis). scribed from a wanderer to Nenortalik, in the Julianehaab district of southwesternGreenland. This species breeds regularly in northern Russia and Siberia from theDwina to the Yenesei, and winters south to western India and northern Africa.] 36 BULLETIN 292, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGEICULTUEE. HERRING GULL, Larus argentatus Pontoppidan. Range.—Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic islands of NorthAmerica east to the White Sea, and south to the Caspian and Medi-terranean Seas, the Gulf of Mexico, and western Texas.
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