. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. f^ i *m. HKRRIXC; GULL. LaRUS argentATUS S\iITHSONIANUS. Char. Mantle deep pearl gray ; head, tail, and under parts white ; outer wing-fcathors mostly Mack, tipped with white; bill yellow, with a bar <f red at the angle, legs and feet flesh eolor. Length about 24 inrhes. In winter the head and neck are streaked with gray Immature birds are mottled brownish gray and dull white; wings dusky
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada [microform] : based on Nuttall's Manual. Water-birds; Water-birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux aquatiques; Oiseaux aquatiques; Ornithologie. f^ i *m. HKRRIXC; GULL. LaRUS argentATUS S\iITHSONIANUS. Char. Mantle deep pearl gray ; head, tail, and under parts white ; outer wing-fcathors mostly Mack, tipped with white; bill yellow, with a bar <f red at the angle, legs and feet flesh eolor. Length about 24 inrhes. In winter the head and neck are streaked with gray Immature birds are mottled brownish gray and dull white; wings dusky; tail dusky or gray, with a subtcrminal bar of dusky; bill blackish In ymniger speci- mens the dark tints prevail, some being almost uniformly dusky brown. They do not acquire full plumage for four or five years. Usually on a cliff, often on a beach or grassv island, some- times in a tree or under shelter of a bush, — generally a slight affair, a thin mat of loosely arranged grass or moss; though nests placed in trees are bulky and compact. E,i,[^s. 2-3 (usually 3); pale to dark Iniff, more or "ss tinged with green, sometimes nearly olive ; marked with st ral shades of brown and lavender; average size about X The Herring Gtill is common to the milder as well as cold countries of both continents. It is seen sometimes on the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924; Nuttall, Thomas. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Boston : Little, Brown
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