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Douglas A. Bell
1987
Catalog
172244
DAB
Larus occidentalis
181
Location: Coos Bay, nr. Jettys & Coast Guard Tower,
Skel+
Coos Co., Oregon
Rt Wing.
Date: 16 June 1987
Sex: ♂ L: 1.20 x 0.86 x 0.71 R: 1.06 x 0.53 x 0.52
Wt: 1,210 grms Fat: Good
Winglength: 43.2 cm (left) Chord: 145 cm
Primary lengths: 10: 30.1 cm 7: 28.4 cm
9: 30.6 6: 26.9
8: 29.8 5: 25.1
Tail: 17.0 cm No pignt shafts.
Tarsus: 6.70 cm (Rt.) Toes: out: 6.07 mid: 6.17 cm
in: 4.75 Hal: 0.57
Headlength: 13.48 cm
Bill length: 6.32 cm at post. nails: 3.80 cm
Bill width: 1.44 cm at Gape: 3.50
Bill depth: Gouys: 2.25 cm
Ant. Nails: 2.17 cm
Post. nails: 2.09 cm
Brood patches: 2 upper thumb-size, & heavy re-feathering.
1 middle re-feathered -/down.
Bill color: 2.5 Y 7/8 Gony 1 OR 5/14
Eye ring color: 10 YR 7/10 in corners, 2.5 Y 7/8 in
central ring part.
Irides: 2.5 Y 8/2. Heavy pigment in near+lower 3/3
Legs: 5 R 7/2
Remarks: left po 10-1; (1st molt-but nearly finished)
Stomach full fish fillets, 1 frozen meal