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llion
949
Euloca Americana
-58-
July 8 Jewel Lake, Tilden Park, Contra Costa Co Calif.
sheathed. G1S - of N brood 2nd primary
121 mm fully unsheathed - 10 primaries
1st with a white leading edge
leading edge on 1st feather of pollex
white, about a 15 mm tip of white
on secondaries - first white
tip on 7th primary but only tight
around rachis on primaries 7-8-9-10-
but tips including rachis white
on all secondaries. iris quite
reddish, 8 mm of frontal shield deep
blood red, bill smooth gray,
legs dull yellow green.
G3B - much as above bird but no
white tips on primaries, 2nd
primary 131 mm, middle rectrix 57
mm, legs dull gray green. S? B/S
blood red unbleched eye, bill ivory
with pied on upper bill, frontal
shield dried blood red - 5 mm
claw on pollex. 2nd primary 136mm
mid rectrix 58 mm - no evidence
of molt, no white tips on
primaries but all secondaries
with white tips. G1S of S brood
eyes gray green fleched red, bill
mottled ivory to nostril, head top
mostly dark gray few light
gray feathers, brown
on rump and on flanks 2nd primar
94 mm - 30 of it sheathed. mid
rectrix 43 mm 7 of it sheathed
R1B 2nd primary 76 mm. 30mm sheathed,
3 mm claw on pollex, 10 mm of the