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Catalog
172446
DAB
Larus occidentalis wymani
267
location Forney Cove, Santa Cruz Island, Santa Barbara Co.,
Shod.
date April 30, 1988 Calif.
sex ♂ LT: 1.87 x 1.52 x 1.45 RT: 1.30 x 1.10 x 1.05
weight 1050 G fat Heavy
wing length 42.4 cm (L) span 199.7 cm!
pr length 10 30.4 7 29.6
9 31.6 6 27.8
8 31.0 5 25.7
tail length 16.2 cm
tarsus l 6.71 toes in 4.47 mid 6.40 out 6.07 .056
head length 12.74
bill length 6.01 post nares 3.49
bill width 1.34 gape 3.31
bill depth gonys 2.25 ant post
nares 2.12 nares 1.96
brood patches 3 downy
bill color 10 YR 7/12 spot 8.75R 4.5/16.5
eyering color 10 YR 7/14
irides 5Y 8/4 pigment 10 YR 3/2 - Thick, grainy lower half.
legs 2.5 Y 8/8 Feet 5 YR 7/6
remarks Shot. 2 blood meals. 3 eye photos - 9-10. When the
bird came down it threw up a 10" midshipman fish.
Fish bones in stomach. 2 ly frozen tissue meals.
Testes in EtOH. Alular claw right mung.