. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . rts in America have not been mentioned byauthors; and the Prince of Musignano informs us, that it is exceedinglyrare in the United States. It is notoriously greedy and voracious, preyingnot only on fish and small birds, but on carrion of every kind. One speci-men killed on Captain Ross expedition disgorged an auk when it was struck,and proved, on dissection, to have another in its stomach. Unless whenimpelled to exertion by hunger, it is rather a shy, inactive bird, and has littleof the clamorousness of ot
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . rts in America have not been mentioned byauthors; and the Prince of Musignano informs us, that it is exceedinglyrare in the United States. It is notoriously greedy and voracious, preyingnot only on fish and small birds, but on carrion of every kind. One speci-men killed on Captain Ross expedition disgorged an auk when it was struck,and proved, on dissection, to have another in its stomach. Unless whenimpelled to exertion by hunger, it is rather a shy, inactive bird, and has littleof the clamorousness of others of the genus. There is a considerable varietyin the size of individuals. Captain Sabine found most of his specimenssmaller than the L. marinus, but the largest individual of either specieswhich he met with, was a male of L. glaucus, killed in Barrows length was thirty-two inches; extent of wing sixty-five inches; weightfour pounds and a quarter. Its tarsus was three inches and a half long, andits bill, which was prodigiously strong and arched, measured upwards of four.
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