. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 52 BIRDS OF AMERICA. Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy of Outtny Pub. Lo. FRANKLIN'S GULL Dropping down among the reeds to its nest late June and July the equatic vegetation seems alive with paddling puff-balls. In their feeding habits during the warmer part of the year they are largely insectivorous. Out in the marshy lakes they feed a great deal upon nymphs of the dragon-fly, and on any in- sects or larvffi locally available. On the plowed fields they find many injurious grubs and cut- worms. Later they are active in pursuit of grasshoppers. Their flock
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 52 BIRDS OF AMERICA. Photo by H. K. Job Courtesy of Outtny Pub. Lo. FRANKLIN'S GULL Dropping down among the reeds to its nest late June and July the equatic vegetation seems alive with paddling puff-balls. In their feeding habits during the warmer part of the year they are largely insectivorous. Out in the marshy lakes they feed a great deal upon nymphs of the dragon-fly, and on any in- sects or larvffi locally available. On the plowed fields they find many injurious grubs and cut- worms. Later they are active in pursuit of grasshoppers. Their flocking is very spectacular, both when they are preparing to leave in the fall, and when they arrive in spring. In selected places, es- pecially near the nesting-grounds, the prairie is sometimes fairly white with them. Gulls are supposed to be chiefly maritime birds, but this species is a seeming exception. In fact the Rosy Gulls are rarely seen either on the At- lantic or the Pacific coast of the United States, though in winter some of them at least come out along the Gulf coast, and follow it down into South America. But it would seem hard to one who has known it in the sloughs and on the prairies to picture it flying over the ocean, where it could easily be mistaken for the Laughing Gull. Herbert K. Job. BONAPARTE'S GULL Larus phila A. O. U. Xumljcr Other Names.— Bonaparte's Rosy Gull; Black- headed Gull: Sea Pigeon. General Description.— Length, 14 inches. Color, white with pale bluish-gray mantle and dark slate colored head. Color.—Adults in Summer: Head, dark slate reach- ing further in front than behind ; a 'white patch above and another below eye: mantle, pale grayish-blue; most of primaries zvith black tips: neck all around, tail, and under parts, pure white, latter rose-tinted; bill, black: gape and eyelids carmine; feet, coral-red; webs, vermilion. Adults in Winter: No hood: crown and back of head, mottled with dusky; back of neck with tint of color of mantle; a c
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