. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. C. ATRICILLA : BLACK-HEADED GULL. 35 I the Gannets, as well as along the Labrador coast; and a few also breed on the coast of Maine and in the Bay of Fundy. BLACK-HEADED OR LAUGHING GULL. Chroicocephalus ATRICILLA (Z.) Lawr Chars. A species of medium size, of less robust form and slenderer bill than most of the foregoing. In the breeding season the white of the under parts rosy-tinted, and the head enveloped in a dark-colored hood. Length, ; wing,
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. C. ATRICILLA : BLACK-HEADED GULL. 35 I the Gannets, as well as along the Labrador coast; and a few also breed on the coast of Maine and in the Bay of Fundy. BLACK-HEADED OR LAUGHING GULL. Chroicocephalus ATRICILLA (Z.) Lawr Chars. A species of medium size, of less robust form and slenderer bill than most of the foregoing. In the breeding season the white of the under parts rosy-tinted, and the head enveloped in a dark-colored hood. Length, ; wing, ; tarsus, ; middle toe and claw, ; bill, about , the tip elongated and decurved, so that the point comes nearly or quite. Fig. 76. — Bill of Laughing Gull, nat. size. down to the level of the small acute prominence of the gonys. Mantle grayish-plumbeous; hood dark plumbeous; eyelids white; black on primaries taking in nearly all the first quill, but rapidly decreasing to the sixth; the white tips very small, few, or want- ing ; bill and feet dusky carmine. In winter, not rosy, and un- hooded; head white, with dusky or grayish patches on the nape and auriculars. Young: quite brown, paler, grayish or whitish below and on the upper tail-coverts; feathers of the back dark with paler edges; quills and tail black, or latter white or partly grayish-blue, with a black bar; bill and feet dusky or brownish. Unlike all the foregoing, the present is a southern species, and a summer resident only with us. It ap-. 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 Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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