. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . ..# > \ i f. A k S Gulls brown, sometimes whitish, eggs, spotted, blotched, and scrawledwith brown, are laid in June. In the nesting grounds the her-ring gulls are shy of men and fierce in defending their mates andyoung, to whom they are especially devoted. Akak, hnkak theyscream or bark at the intruder, making a din that is fairly deaf-ening. Before the summer is ended the baby gulls will have learnedto breast a gale, sleep with head tucked under wing whenrocked on the c
. Birds that hunt and are hunted : life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls . ..# > \ i f. A k S Gulls brown, sometimes whitish, eggs, spotted, blotched, and scrawledwith brown, are laid in June. In the nesting grounds the her-ring gulls are shy of men and fierce in defending their mates andyoung, to whom they are especially devoted. Akak, hnkak theyscream or bark at the intruder, making a din that is fairly deaf-ening. Before the summer is ended the baby gulls will have learnedto breast a gale, sleep with head tucked under wing whenrocked on the cradle of the deep, and follow a ship for the ref-use thrown overboard, like any veteran. They are the grayishbrown birds which one can readily pick out in a flock of adultswhen they migrate to our coasts in winter. Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensisj Length— to inches. Male and Female—Mantle over back and wings light pearl color,rest of plumage white except in winter, when the head andnape are spotted, not streaked, with grayish brown. Wingshave first primary black, with a white spot near the tip,the base of the i
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