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Catalog
172320
DAB
299
Skull
left wing
Larus occidentalis occidentalis
location Spring Ranch, near Van Damme Beach State Park, 2 mi. S Mendocino
Mendocino Co., Calif.
date 24 May 1988
sex: ♂ LT 1.48 x 1.05 x 1.01 RT 0.97 x 0.70 x 0.60
weight 1110 g fat: Good
wing length right: 41.7 span 140.5 cm
pr length 10 29.2 7 28.0
9 29.8 6 25.4
8 29.2 5 24.0
tail length: 16.2
tarsus right: 6.13 toes in:4.4 mid 5.88 out: 5.65 halyx 0.53
head length: 12.88
bill length: 5.97 post nares 3.70
bill width: 1.32 gape 3.34
bill depth gonys: 2.19 ant nares: 2.08 post nares: (1.92
brood patches: 3
bill color um:10YR7-12 lm: 10YR 7-12 spot color 14
eyering color: 10YR 7-12 + corners
irides: 5 Y 8-2
pig.: 10YR 4-2, light grainy lower 1/2
legs: 2.5R 6-4
remarks p°10-2, stomach oil small amount of fish meal - small stoliths taken. One of pair nesting on offshore rock; 2 frozen tissue trials. Mate of 305