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Catalog
1723/0
DAB
Larus occidentalis occidentalis
at Cape Mendocino.
310
Location: Sugarloaf Rock Humboldt Co., Calif.
Shd +
Date: May 25 1988
LW
Sex: LT: 1.27 X 0.87 X 0.76 RT: 1.33 X 1.05 X 1.08 cm
Weight: 1130g Fat: Good
Winglength right: 42.3 Span: 147.5 cm
Prim length 10: 28.9 7 27.5
9 29.7 6 25.8
8 28.9 5 24.0
Tail length: 15.6
Tarsus: right 3/9 Tars: Ln: 4.66 Mid: 6.12 Out: 5.92
Headlength: 12.92 Hallux: 0.44
Bill length: 5.76 Post Nares: 3.57
Bill width: 1.34 Gape: 3.41
Bill depth - Gonyx: 2.23 ant. Post:
Nares: 2.16 Nares 1.97
Brood Patches: 3 partially down.
Bill Color um: 10YR 7-10 Spot: color 15
lm: 10YR 7-12
Eyerin Color.: 10 YR 7-10 + corners
Driedes: 5Y8-4
Pigment: 10YR 3-2 light grains lower 1/3
legs: 10RP 6-4
Remarks: Shot on beach. 2 frozen tissue samples - stomach empty except for a few small fish vertebrae - saved.
Glulars RWT LWT