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Title: A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859 Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ve cry. BONAPARTES GULL. Larus Philadelphia. Char. Mantle pearl gray; head and neck or hood grayish black ordeep slate color; white patches over the eyes; outer wing-feathers witha subterminal bar of black tipped with white, excepting outer web of firstprimary, which is entirely black; tail white; under parts white, tingedwith rose pink; bill black and slender; legs and feet bright red. In win-ter the head is white, with a dusky spot on the cheeks and a tinge of grayon the nape. In young birds the head and back are more or less tingedwith brown, and the tail has a terminal band of black. Length about 14inches. Nest. Usually in a tree, sometimes on a high branch, often in a lowbush amid a woody swamp; made of twigs and lined with grass or moss. Eggs. 3-4 (usually 3); pale to dark brown, often tinged with olive,marked with brown and lavender; 2.00 X 1.40. This elegant Gull is common in all parts of the fur countries,where it associates with the Terns, and is distinguished by its PI.XVI,
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1. Northern PTialarope.2.Bonapartes GuU. 3 . Wilsons Tern.4-.5.Herrtnd Gull. ROSSS GULL. 239 peculiar shrill and plaintive cry. Small flocks, early in au-tumn, are occasionally seen on the coast of Massachusetts, andsometimes high in the air their almost melodious whistUng isheard as they proceed on their way to the South, or inland tofeed. Their prey appears to be chiefly insects; and two whichI had an opportunity of examining were gorged with ants andtheir eggs, and some larvae of moths in their pupa state. Thesebirds both old and young are good food. Bonapartes Gull ranges throughout North America, breedingin Manitoba and northward, and migrating by inland and coastroutes to and from its winter resorts in the soutiiern portions of theUnited States. Small numbers of these Gulls are seen on the New Englandcoast during the summer, but no evidence has been produced oftheir having nested in this vicinity. It has been suggested thatthe examples that loiter through the summer without reac

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