THE CALIFORNIA GULL. 



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Range in Washington. — Common spring and fall migrant, cliiffiy in April 

 and Xovember, on I'nget S'lund ; casual in winter. 



Authorities. — Baird and Lawrence, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. IX. 1858, p. 846. 

 C&S. Rh. B. E. 



Specimens. — B. 



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lAlMEXSE numbers of these birds pass thru our borders in April and 

 again in October. In the spring they are not long detained by the attrac- 

 tions of the water front and garbage dump, being intent ini home building" 

 in the interior marshes of British Columbia, but in the fall their progress 

 southward is more leisurely, and some accept winter tpiarters on the thoro- 

 fares of Puget Sound. 



A steamboat ride on a raw Xovember day is sure to be enli\ene(i 

 by the sight of an attendant group of 

 gulls, Calif ornias. Herrings, and Glau- 

 cous-wings. They play pilot, hovering 

 angel, and passenger by turns; and often 

 for the sheer humor of 

 the thing, trail doggedly 

 behind, as tho flying, 

 forsooth, were h a r d 

 work. 



The gulls take a lively 

 interest in the passen- 

 gers, but it is the cook 

 who has the key to the 

 gull heart. It is for his 

 sake alone that the birds 

 have forsworn the sunny 

 beaches of Calif<jrnia 

 and attached themsehes to 



From a Photografh, Copyright^ 1907, by /('. 1. Daicson. 

 •■OLD WINDMILL." 



CALIFORNIA GULL OFF JACKSON STREET WHARF, SEATTLE. 



the caravels of commerce. 



"He may Ii\'e without love — what is passion but pining? 

 But where is the (/;(// that can li\e without dining?" 



If you would cultivate gull society fee the galley for a loaf of bread 

 and smuggle it up surreptitiously to the hurricane deck, well aft. X^ow 

 for some fun ! The hungry horde weaves to and fro, forward and back, 

 up and down and around, mewing expectantly like a litter of kittens at 

 milking time. Hold up a piece of bread and the |5ace becomes furious. 

 "Please, please, please," they cry, until their mandibles fairly quiver with 

 eagerness. But none snatches it from vour hand : xhcx are too well disciplined 

 in the treacherous wavs of men for that. When at last the bit is flunsf — 



