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Catalog
Douglas A. Bell
172240
091
SKELETON +
Rt. Wing.
Species: Larus occidentalis
Location: Coos Bay, Coos Co., Oregon as (Coos Head)
date: June 12, 1986
Sex: ? Ovary(left) with numerous small ova.
weight: 850g No fat; sharp heel.
wing length: right: 41.0cm
primary length:
10: 28.0cm
9: 29.3cm
8: 28.7cm
7: 26.9cm
6: 25.02cm
5: 23.6cm
tail length: 15.0cm
tarsus: 5.96cm right Rt. middle toe: 5.90 cm
head length: 11.93cm
bill length: 5.55cm post.n: 3.31cm
bill width: 1.22 cm
bill depth:
'goups: 2.0 cm
'aut. m.: 1.99 cm
'post. m.: 1.85 cm
Foodpatches: 3
bill, eye ring color: orange yellow
irides: no pigment, straw yellow
leg: fleshy pink
Remarks:
4 hrs on ice before tissue taking.
Removed 2 large, yellow, cheesy sack-like structures from both sides of body just internal to the spaces over lungs and kidneys. Of The structures are sac-like each large. Rt one 8 x 4 cm, left one 5x3cm. The sacks are closely applied to post borders of lungs, and along the ventral surface of kidneys.
Had to dig sacks out of rectroes/rib cage and ant. synsacrum (tumors in air sacs?) Rest of internal organs seem normal. Ovary came out of sack.
Preserved in formalin. Stomach: one nib, few stolids - contents saved.
var: Rt Lobe: 8x3 cm
Lft. Lobe: 5x3cm
Yellow, cheesy inclusions,
2mm discs from
embranes of thoracic
cavity saved. Yellow chunk
from wing/post girdle
joint saved.