. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. i i 226 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — other, with a minute spot on each side, opposite the space between the two larger sjiots ; oceiimi with four large spots amingeil in a transverse seres ; below these, three othei-s, their poMitioii corresponding to the spaces between tlie spots of the series above ; below these three spots a ragged liiind across eadi side of the naj)e, the two separated by a considerable interval ; then follow two or three sjjots across the lower part of the nape, their
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. i i 226 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — other, with a minute spot on each side, opposite the space between the two larger sjiots ; oceiimi with four large spots amingeil in a transverse seres ; below these, three othei-s, their poMitioii corresponding to the spaces between tlie spots of the series above ; below these three spots a ragged liiind across eadi side of the naj)e, the two separated by a considerable interval ; then follow two or three sjjots across the lower part of the nape, their form and arrangement being rather indefinite. On tlie lures are three sinuU spots arranged h)ngitudinally ; a spot over each eye ; there are also several irregular large spots on tlie lower part of the head, rather less dis- tinctly defined than the others. Total length, about inches ; bill (from culmen), inch.* Total length, about inches ; wing, 17.(!(V1!).50 (average, ); culmen, (); depth of bill through angle, . (); tarsus, (); middle toe, (). (Five adults.) Tlie Great Black-backetl Gull — ov Saddle-back, as it is more coiiiinonly called on the American coast — is a Xortli Atlantic species, common to both the European and the American coasts, and fonnd as far north as the Arctic Circle. It also occurs in the Pacific, as Mr. Swinhoe met with it in Jai)an in ^lay ('"Ibis," 1874). It is found along the entire coast of Europe and North Africa, from Norway to ^ladeira; and it breeds from the northern coast of France and Great Britain northward.^ The ]\Iessrs. Godman found this species breeding in large numbers on all the islands off the coast of Norway; and Mv. Wheelwright also affirms that it breeds along the coast of Scandinavia as far as North Cape; l)ut states that in the south- ern portion of that country it is more common on tlu; Baltic sliore than ahjiig llie Cattcgiit and the North
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