Fulica, Part 1, v1314
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July 1949 Fulica americana 157 Dec 16 Ulmiz Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif. - S/B replaced with V/8 - bursa 22 mm. under wing coverts M2, bill decidedly immature, gray tips to belly feathers but not much on breast feathers more on neck feathers. Y/G - gray tips on crissum, belly, breast & neck feathers, under wing coverts M1, bursa 30 mm., bill very immature with gray outer portion, eye heavily flocked with green, legs green. S/B - few but not many gray tips on belly feathers, very few white tips on crissum, bursa 15 mm., under wing coverts M2. G/S - under wing coverts M1, legs G., bill definitely immature, gray tips on breast & belly feathers, but not on crissum. bursa 28 mm. O/- incision on way to healing - under wing coverts M, light tips on belly feathers, and lower breast feathers, some on crissum. legs yellow-green, bill slightly swollen, bursa 30 mm., weight 523 grams. B/W/ - under wing coverts M1, - some white tips on belly feathers, no white tips on crissum, bill * typically immature, bursa 20 mm. weight 493 grams. III - tag replaced with V/S - under wing coverts M1, no white tips on crissum, few white tips on belly, bill not too adult like, but wrinkled as tho down from an inflated condition - legs yellow-brown - bursa 10 mm.,