. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . of ayear? Gulls? Kinds of gulls? repeats the man in the jjilot-house, theman wdio knows buoys, liarbc:)r lights and all ]Moper things of seamanshiplike a book. Why, there isnt more than one kind, is there? W^ell, yes; mebbethevs two kinds, the daik ones and the white ones; or mebbe thevs big andlittle ones. This, of faithful attendants after twenty ^■ears ser\ice at sea! 73° THE HERRING GULL. \\\ know, of course, lliat there are ele\en kinds of yulls in Washington,besides the
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . of ayear? Gulls? Kinds of gulls? repeats the man in the jjilot-house, theman wdio knows buoys, liarbc:)r lights and all ]Moper things of seamanshiplike a book. Why, there isnt more than one kind, is there? W^ell, yes; mebbethevs two kinds, the daik ones and the white ones; or mebbe thevs big andlittle ones. This, of faithful attendants after twenty ^■ears ser\ice at sea! 73° THE HERRING GULL. \\\ know, of course, lliat there are ele\en kinds of yulls in Washington,besides their blood relati\es, the jaegers and Terns, of wliicli tiiere are twoand four species, respectively. The captain might have been sooner pardonedif be had answered Forty!: for when to the subtle but sliifting variety ofadult marking is added the intenuinable shading n\ childbodd and vouth,you have a scene of confusion worse confounded, in which not even theexpert is at home. But let us see if a little light is possible; The dingy,mottled. i>r Ijlackish gulls are (with une excei)tiiin) young birds of the first. Taken in Seattle. From a Photograph, Copyright, 1908, by il. L. Dtnison,A GULL MliL-ANCi:. and second years. Save in the case of ITeermanns Gull (L. Iiccniiaiiui) alladult gulls are chiefly white, with the upper surfaces of back and wings—the mantle—chiefly blue-gray (pearly gra\, ashy gray, or ])lumbeous) ; while,also with one exception, the ti])s of the wings, or jirimaries, are black, variouslyspotted and blotclied (or not ) with white. .Ml birds which show mixed char-acters, such as black tail and wing-(|uills with mottled plumage, arejuveniles of the second or third \-ear. Tlie most persistent juxcnile characteristic in the case of the common THE VEGA GULL. 731 larger gulls, (Lams glauccscciis, occidciifalis. aryciitatus, califODiiciis, dcla-xvarciisis, and brachyrhyiichiis) is a gradually diminishing area of black uponthe beak (altho this in its reduce
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