. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GULLS 4.1 Jiii/Toii' z(.'liitr til^s: rest of primaries and secondaries, with white tips ; bill, chrome yellow with red spot at anijle: feet, brownish flesh color; iris, yellow. .Adults IX Winter: Similar to snmmer plumage, but head and neck streaked with dusky, and yellow of bill duller. Young: Dull whitish, varied everywhere with shades of brown and dusky ; tail, plain brown ; primaries and secondaries, brown with white tips ; bill, pale flesh color, dusky at end: legs, flesh color; iris, brown. There is much variation in the amount of dusky color
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. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GULLS 4.1 Jiii/Toii' z(.'liitr til^s: rest of primaries and secondaries, with white tips ; bill, chrome yellow with red spot at anijle: feet, brownish flesh color; iris, yellow. .Adults IX Winter: Similar to snmmer plumage, but head and neck streaked with dusky, and yellow of bill duller. Young: Dull whitish, varied everywhere with shades of brown and dusky ; tail, plain brown ; primaries and secondaries, brown with white tips ; bill, pale flesh color, dusky at end: legs, flesh color; iris, brown. There is much variation in the amount of dusky color in indi- viduals; young of the year are sometimes almost entirely sooty-brown; this changes with the gradual acquisition of lighter tips and edges of the feathers, finally reaching the perfect adult plumage in three years. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: Sometimes on the ground, occasionally in trees ; ground nests usually mere depres- sions with scant nesting material; tree nests bulky and well constructed of strongly interwoven grass and moss. Ki;(;s: 3. light bluish or greenish-white to dark olive- brown, irregularly blotched, spotted, and scrawled with dark brown and black. Distribution.— Xorthcrn hemispliere; in .America breeds from south-central .Alaska, across British -America to Cumberland Sound, south to British Colum- l)ia, across the United States on about the parallel 43' to Maine, and in P2urope south to northern b'rance and east to White Sea; winters from northern border of United States southward to Lower California and west- ern Me.xico, and from Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes south to the Bahamas, Cuba, Yucatan, and coast of Texas, and in Europe to Mediterranean and Caspian seas. The most ahiiiKlant CiuU along the .Atl.intic coast of the L'nited States is the familiar Her- ring Gull. It is the sjiecies we hnd follmving the coast-wise ships looking eagerly for any scraps of food that are thrown overboard from the cook's gallev. .t low tide we may find them