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Catalog
Douglas A. Bell
172216
097
Species: Larus occidentalis
Skeleton+
Location: Tillamook Bay Spit, Tillamook Co., Oregon
Left Wing.
date: June 16, 1986
sex: ? ovary disintegrating
weight: 1040g heavy fat
winglength: 39.2 cm right
primary length: 10:
27.4 cm
9:
28.1 cm
8:
27.4 cm
7:
26.5 cm
6:
24.5 cm
5:
22.8 cm
tail length: 15.3 cm
tarsus: right: 5.85 cm Middle Toe: 5.48cm Inner Toe: 4.06cm Outr Toe: 5.29cm Hallux: 0.43 cm
head length: 12.1 cm
bill length: 5.60 cm post. m: 3.50 cm
bill width: 1.28 cm
bill depth gougs:
1.93 cm
"
ut. m.: 1.91 cm
"post. m.: 1.86 cm
brood patches: 3 (middle one refecthering)
bill, eyering color: orange yellow
irides: straw yellow, thin pigment dispessed throughout
legs: fleshy pink
stomach S: Stomach chocked full of fish remains - including
sheets of fish skin. Mostly smaller fish (< ? 4") and a few-
small mollux shell pieces.