Catalog Douglas A. Bell 172218 099 Species: Larus occidentalis Skeleton + Location: Tillamook Bay Spit, Tillamook Co, Oregon Left Wing. Date: June 16, 1986 Sex: ♀ 3 secs on ovary, ≤10 ova ≥2mm Ø, rest < 1mm Ø. 1 cheese spot. organ preserved. weight: 700g, No fat. Protruding keel, naked synsacrum, winglength: right 41.9 cm wingchord: 135.4 cm primary lengther: 10: 29.5cm 9: 29.8cm 8: 29.2cm 7: 28.1cm 6: 25.2cm 5: 23.7cm tail length: 15.8 cm tarsus: right: 6.17 cm R. outer toe: 5.57cm Inner Toe: 3.42cm middle toe: 5.81cm Hallux: 0.36cm head length: 12.24 cm bill length: 5.38cm post. u: 3.90cm bill width: 1.30 cm bill depth: goungs: 2.05 cm " aut. n.: 1.98 cm " post. n.: 1.82 cm brood patches: 3 bill, eyering color: orange yellow irides: even pigment disposed throughout straw- yellow legs: fleshy pink Stomach: numerous small clams - saved. remarks: found fresh dead on mud flats might have been the bird seen gasping lying flat 2 hrs before found starving, no within body cavity, esp. on mesenterics over lungs & on stomach, tissues taken numerous moldy, yellowish cheesy spots, S at left lung ~ 2mm Ø, + about 18 smaller spots around it. Several spots on other lung. isolated spots on intestines. Preserved overly a some spots in formalin: