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Catalog
Douglas A. Bell
10/h
172821
0102
SKELETON +
RT. WING
Species: Larus occidentalis
Location: East Sand Island Mouth of the Columbia River
Clatsop co. Oregon.
date: June 18, 1986
sex: ? O? Gonads gone -> destroyed. Found one structure that looked like oviduct, another that looked like a spermcord.
weight: 1220g Moderate Fat.
winglength: left: 42.2 cm
primary length: 10: 29.1cm
9: 29.6cm
8: 29.3cm
7: 28.4 cm
6: 26.5cm
5: 24.1cm
tail length: 16.1cm (left side only)
tarsus: left: 6.28cm LEFT Middle toe: 5.84 cm Outer toe: 5.98 cm
Inner toe: 4.62 cm Hallux: 0.66 cm
head length: 13.59cm Right Hallux - missing nail, short 0.45cm
bill length: 6.54cm post. n.: 4.01cm
bill width: 1.35cm
bill depth: groups: 2.17 cm
4 and.n.: 2.03 cm
4 post. u.: 1.99 cm
food patches: 3 (middle feathering)
bill, eye mig color: Orange yellow
irides: moder. pigm. ovr lower half Straw-yellow
legs: fleshy pink
remarks: right foot clump. No nail on rt. outer toe.
Stomach contents - small fish vertebrae, 2 lg. black invert beaks,
several small white shell-like structures.
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