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Catalog
Douglas A Bell
172236
087
Species: Larus occidentalis
Location: Coos Bay near Coos Head, Coos County, OREGON
date: June 12, 1986
Sex: ♀ L. ovary w/ ~25 ova > 2 mm &.
weight: 910 g heavy fat
wing length: left: right: 40.02 cm
primary length: 10: 28.4 cm
9: 29.0 cm
8: 28.3 cm
7: 27.0 cm
6: 25.04 cm
5: 23.3 cm
tail length: 15.08 cm arsus: right: 5.50 cm rt. middle toe: 5.57 cm
head length: 11.94 cm
bill length: 5.68 cm
" post. m.: 3.80 cm
bill width: 1.21 cm
bill depth groups: 1.93 cm
" aut. m: 2.01 cm
" post. m: 1.86 cm
brood patches: 3
bill, eye ring color: orange yellow
irides: very little pigment, straw yellow
leg: fleshy pink
remarks: tissue taken out 5 hrs after birds were shot, stored on ice. Stomach contained < 30 small fish vertebrae, small (2 mm)