. The water birds of North America . line of de-marcation between the black and blue stillmore sharply defined ; sixth, lighter plum-beous-blue, passing into white toward theend, and crossed by a wide subterminalband o! black ; remaining quills cinereous-blue, broadly tipped with white. Re-mainder of the plumage yellow, varying from greenish-lemonto chrome, the terminal third of the man-dible bright red (varying from orange-redto carmine), the tip again yellow ; a moreor less distinct dusky spot in or immedi-ately in front of the red, and one directly(bove it on the maxilla, th
. The water birds of North America . line of de-marcation between the black and blue stillmore sharply defined ; sixth, lighter plum-beous-blue, passing into white toward theend, and crossed by a wide subterminalband o! black ; remaining quills cinereous-blue, broadly tipped with white. Re-mainder of the plumage yellow, varying from greenish-lemonto chrome, the terminal third of the man-dible bright red (varying from orange-redto carmine), the tip again yellow ; a moreor less distinct dusky spot in or immedi-ately in front of the red, and one directly(bove it on the maxilla, the tip of whichis sometimes grayish white ; rictus andeyelids vermilion red; iris dart; hazel orvandyke-brown : legs andfet tpal pea-green,sometimes tinged villi Adult, : Similar, but head and neck(except underneath) broadly streakedwith grayish brown. Young, first )>tn-mage: Above, coarsely spotted, in nearly 1 Exactly as in L. cachinnans, Pallas ! 2 Notes from upward of fifty freshly-killed specimens !p. 637.). (Cf. RlDGWAY, Orn. Fortieth Par. 1877, — THE GULLS AND TERNS — LARUS. 243 ^
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