. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . the head is white, there being a nar-row black collar around the neck, the tail iswedge shaped, and the whole under parts fromthe chin to the tail are rosy in the breeding plum-age. The nests and eggs remain still undiscover-ed, although Nansen, in August 1896, found asupposed breeding ground in Franz Josef Land,because of the numbers of the birds, hut foundno nests. 62. Sabines Gull. Xona Arctic regions, breeding from Alaska a
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . the head is white, there being a nar-row black collar around the neck, the tail iswedge shaped, and the whole under parts fromthe chin to the tail are rosy in the breeding plum-age. The nests and eggs remain still undiscover-ed, although Nansen, in August 1896, found asupposed breeding ground in Franz Josef Land,because of the numbers of the birds, hut foundno nests. 62. Sabines Gull. Xona Arctic regions, breeding from Alaska and Greenland and northward, and wintering Ros< Gull south to New England. A handsome bird, having the slaty hoodbordered behind with a black ring, the primar-ies black, white tipped, and the tail slightlyforked. They breed abundantly on the marshesof northern Alaska ami Greenland, nesting thesame as others of the species. The two orthere eggs are laid in June. They are greenishbrown in color ami are marked with darkbrown. Size \ 1.:... Data. Hudson i 1. 1s- I. I !gg laid on t he mound intin- moss; no nesl excepl the hollow in the.
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