. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. : — LARINJE: G ULLS. 747 dusky; darkest on the latter; all with light edgings. Primaries uuif„n., , without white spots, tips, or lighter bases. Tail almost emirelv 'k. witli a narrow border of white. Young in August: I5ill and Irgs as in the :. Kveivwhero whitish-gray ; the white o
. Key to North American birds [microform] : containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. : — LARINJE: G ULLS. 747 dusky; darkest on the latter; all with light edgings. Primaries uuif„n., , without white spots, tips, or lighter bases. Tail almost emirelv 'k. witli a narrow border of white. Young in August: I5ill and Irgs as in the :. Kveivwhero whitish-gray ; the white of the under i)arts appearing as mottling, and hhu' of ; uj-prr parts as irregular patches. Dimensions: lenjith ; extent ; wing i:}.?:. ; bill above ; gape ; width at nostrils O.^J5 ; height , height at angle ().;i5 ; tarsus. and middle toe with daw, Interior of Aretic America, and PaeiKc roast generally. N,)t authentieated as occurring on the Atlantic coast. The American representative of L. caiim. 781. L. heer'inanni. (To Dr. A. L. Heermann. Fig. 50'J.) Wiiiti;-hk.\I)i;i) Gill. Very different from any of the foregoing, belonging to a ditlerent section of the genus {Bliisij)i(s). Hill shorter than head or tarsus, rather slender, nioderat(dy comiircssed, the tip rather acute; its color in part in the adult. Folded wings reaching beyond the tail. Tail of moderate length, even, slightly einarginato in the young. Feet rather large. Tarsus equal to the middle toe and cla«-. (ieu- eral colors dark ; tail mostly blackish. Adult, breeding idinnage : Hill bright vermilion red, black for its terminal third, sometimes whidly red ; a red ring around eye. Head white; this c(dor gradually merging on the neck into plumbeous-ash, which extends over the whole under parts, being lighter on the abdomen and under tail-coverts than elsewhere. The back is deep plumbeous-slate, lighter on the rump. Upper tail-cov- erts clear ashy. Upper sur- faces o
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