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Gimme HERRING GULL - Larus argentatus
smithsonianus
1931
May 19, 1931 Puget Sound + passage
past of Vancouver. Great numbers
of these gulls are found in these
waters. Numbers increased in the
afternoon as we cruised northward.
May 15 1930 thru Seymour Narrows -
still with us, with other gulls.
May 16 Queen Charlotte Straits, - Finlayson
Channel. - probably present.
May 20 Shet present up in Gulf of
Alaska. Several around boat,
many more in north part of Island
passage. Do not appear to have any
bead red in eye - at times on yards
they utter a hen-like cluck! Curiosity
or attracting attention?
Afognak Is
May 21 Marmot Bay - still present -
may not on Triple I. & Whale Is.
May 31 Unalaska, Unalaska Is.,
Aleutian Islands. Now seen for
certainty during weeks stay here.