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We know, of course, that there are eleven kinds of gulls in Washington, 
vesides their blood relatives, the Jaegers and Terns, of which there are two 
and four species, respectively The Captain might have been sooner pardoned 
if he had answered “Forty!"’: for when to the subtle but shifting ariet it 
adult marking is added the interminable shading of childhood and youth, 
you have a scene of confusion worse confounded, in which not even the 
expert is at home But let us see if a little light is possible The dingy, 
mottled, or blackish culls are (with one exception) young birds of the first 
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