. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 242 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIl' founil it nearly as abundivnt about San Diego as L. occidentalls. He speaks of its habits as being very similar to those of that species; but adds that its screams an; not nearly so loud, its voice seeming to be rather faint for so large a bird. It entirely disai)pears frcjni the Pacific coast during the summer. Larus califomicus. THE CALIFORNIA OULL. Larus cnUfornicm, Lawi!. Aim. Lye. N. Y. VI. 1854, 79; in Raiid's B. N. Am. 1858,840.— lUiKi), Cat, N. Am.
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 242 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIl' founil it nearly as abundivnt about San Diego as L. occidentalls. He speaks of its habits as being very similar to those of that species; but adds that its screams an; not nearly so loud, its voice seeming to be rather faint for so large a bird. It entirely disai)pears frcjni the Pacific coast during the summer. Larus califomicus. THE CALIFORNIA OULL. Larus cnUfornicm, Lawi!. Aim. Lye. N. Y. VI. 1854, 79; in Raiid's B. N. Am. 1858,840.— lUiKi), Cat, N. Am. 15. 18riit, iio. GG3. — , \\. N. W. 18/4, C34 ; 2(1 Chuck List, 1882, nc. 777. — Saimikks, P. Z. .S. 1878, 175. — lliixiw. Norn. N. Am. U. 1881, no. CCS. Larim ilcltiwamisis, vav. califomicus, CuUEs, Key, 1872, 313; Check List, 1873, no. 548 a. IIab. Western Province of North America; abundant on the larger inland waters as well as on the coast; nortli to Alaska, south to llio de Coaluiyana, Western Mexico. Sp. Chau. Slightly smaller than L, ocei- dentalis, with nuich weaker bill and lighter mantle. Adult, in summer: Mantle deep blni>ii cinereous, intermediate in shade between tlie pluinbeons of occidetitalis and the pearl-bhu' nf aryeututus,^ the secondaries and tertials broadly (for about one inch) tipped with white. Outer primary bhick, its terminal portion white for about two inches, with or without a blaek subterniinal spot; second quill also black, the tip white, and usually (tlimigh not always) marked by a white spot (sometimes one inch lonj;) near the end ; tliird quill black, tipped witii white, the base jdunibeous ; fourth, with the kisal half plumbeous-blue, the terminal half blaek, tipped with white ; tilth similar, but the black more restricted, and the line of de- marcation between the black and blue still more sharply defined ; sixth, lighter pluni- Ijeous-blue, passing into white toward the end, and crossed by a wide subterniinal band ollil
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