. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 50 BIRDS OF AMERICA parts, wliite, the latter with a rosy tinge; mantle, dark slate-gray; outer six primaries, black; bill, deep car- mine; feet, black; iris and edge of eyelids, carmine. Adults in Winter : Under parts, without rosy tint; head, white, mottled with dusky; bill and feet, dull. Young : Mantle, variegated with light grayish-brown ; primaries, brownish-black, lighter on tips; secondaries, dusky on outer webs; tail, with a broad terminal band of dusky with narrow white tips; upper tail-coverts, white; bill and feet, brownish-black tinged
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 50 BIRDS OF AMERICA parts, wliite, the latter with a rosy tinge; mantle, dark slate-gray; outer six primaries, black; bill, deep car- mine; feet, black; iris and edge of eyelids, carmine. Adults in Winter : Under parts, without rosy tint; head, white, mottled with dusky; bill and feet, dull. Young : Mantle, variegated with light grayish-brown ; primaries, brownish-black, lighter on tips; secondaries, dusky on outer webs; tail, with a broad terminal band of dusky with narrow white tips; upper tail-coverts, white; bill and feet, brownish-black tinged with red. Nest and Eggs.— Nest : On the ground in marshes ; constructed of seaweed, sedges, and eelgrass, : 2 to 5, from dull grayish to dark olive, heavily marked with spots and splashes of brown, black, chestnut, and lavender. Distribution.— Tropical and temperate coasts of North .\merica; breeds from Maine (rarely) and Massachusetts (abundantly but local) south on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to , the Lesser Antilles, and Venezuela; winters from Georgia and Gulf coast south to western Mexico. Chile, and Brazil; casual in Colorado. Nebraska. Wisconsin, Ontario, and Iowa. The Laughing Gull is well named, for seem- ingly it laughs. No great streteh of the imagina- tion is required to assume that its loud cries are those of real mirth. It is a handsome creature in the breeding season, with its dark mantle, black head, and white breast faintly tinged with the color of the rose. It breeds normally along most of the Atlantic coast of the United States. Until recent years it has been almost extirpated by constant persecu- tion on the New England coast but now, under protection, its numbers are increasing. It nests on sandv islands, usually in tall thick grasses or shrubbery; in the north it builds a substantial warm nest of grasses and weeds, but in the south a mere hollow in the sand often suffices. In pleasant warm weather the birds are seen to leave their nests, t
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