. The water birds of North America . glaucus).Larus ini,Kir, , Vog. Deutschl. 1831, subleucopterus, Brehm, t. o. (Glaucus) glacialis, Bruch, J. i. 0. 1S53, 101 (nee Macgill. 1824). Had. Range about the same as that of L. glaucus. South in winter to coast of Massachusetts. Sp. Char. Similar to /.. glaucus, but much smaller, the young darker colored. Adult, insummer: Mantle pale pearl-blue (a shade darker than in L. glaucus) ; remiges similar, but slightlypaler, passing terminally into pure white. Rest of the plumage snow-white. Bill bright orange-yellow, tipped wit
. The water birds of North America . glaucus).Larus ini,Kir, , Vog. Deutschl. 1831, subleucopterus, Brehm, t. o. (Glaucus) glacialis, Bruch, J. i. 0. 1S53, 101 (nee Macgill. 1824). Had. Range about the same as that of L. glaucus. South in winter to coast of Massachusetts. Sp. Char. Similar to /.. glaucus, but much smaller, the young darker colored. Adult, insummer: Mantle pale pearl-blue (a shade darker than in L. glaucus) ; remiges similar, but slightlypaler, passing terminally into pure white. Rest of the plumage snow-white. Bill bright orange-yellow, tipped with yellowish green; vermilion spot on lower mandible; tarsi and toes flesh-color; iris cream-color (L. Kumlien, ). Adult, in winter: Similar, but head and neck 1 Bill gamboge-yellow, with a spot of orange-red near the end of lower mandible ; the angle of themouth and the edges of the eyelids are also orange-red. Iris pale yellow. Feet pale flesh-color ; clawsgrayish brown (Audubon). — THE GULLS AND TERNS — LARUS. 217. streaked with dusky grayish. The bill is wine-yellow, the lower mandible with an orpimentpatch near the end ; the edges of the eyelids yellow; the feet pale flesh-colored, the claws grayishbrown; the iris pale yellow (Macgillivray). Young, first plumage: Grayish white, the headand neck broadly streaked, the upper parts coarsely spotted with brownish ash-gray ; lower partsnearly uniform light brownish ash. the chin ami throat white ; bill wholly blackish ; feet brown-ish. The bill is very pale flesh-coloredas far as the anterior extremity of the nos-trils, beyond which both mandibles are -_ - --_,.brownish black. The feet are pale flesh-colored, the claws brownish black ( ().1 Wing, () inches ;culinen, () ; depth of billthrough angle, .60-. 70 ( 66) ; tarsus, () j middle toe, ().[Four adults.] This bird is so close an ally of L. glaucusthat we must confess our inability to givech
Size: 1739px × 1436px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1884
