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Dougla A Bell
Catalog
172291
079
SKELETON +
Left Wing
Species: Larus occidentalis
location: Mouth of the Little River, Humboldt Co., CA.
4km SE of Trinidad Head
date: 8 June 1986
Sex: & f Left ovary: 15ova >1mm f.
weight: 900g moderate fat
wing length: (right) 38.0cm
primary length: #10: 27.6cm
9: 27.9cm
8: 27.7cm
7: 26.2cm
6: 23.8cm
5: 22.6cm
tail length: 15.0cm
tarsus: left: 5.47 cm
head length: 11.43cm
bill length: 5.34 cm
" port. m.: 3.35 cm
bill width: 1.20cm
" depth gonyx: 1.90 cm
ant. m.: 1.85cm
post. m.: 1.23cm
brood patches: refathering
bill and eyering color: orange/yellow # 18
irides color: strawyellow # flintlike pigment in lower half)
leg color: fleshy pink #5%
genuates: crop full of fish (anchovies)
stomach: few very small fish bones.