THE CALIFORNIA GULL. 73 
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Range in Washington.—Common spring and fall migrant, chiefly in April 
and November, on Puget Sound; casual in winter. 
Authorities.—Baird and Lawrence, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv. EX. 1858, p. 846. 
C&S. Rh. B. E. 
Specimens.—1B. 
IMMENSE 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 on home building 
in the interior marshes of British Columbia, but in the fall their progress 
southward is more leisurely, and some accept winter quarters on the thoro- 
fares of Puget Sound. 
A steamboat ride on a raw November day is sure to be enlivened 
by the sight of an attendant group of 
gulls, Californias, 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 hard 
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 California 
and attached themselves to the caravels of commerce. 
From a Photograph, Copyright, 1907, by W. L. Dawson. 
“OLD WINDMILL.” 
CALIFORNIA GULL OFF JACKSON STREET WHARF, SEATTLE. 
“He may live without love—what is passion but pining ? 
But where is the gull that can live 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. Now 
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 pace becomes furious. 
“Please, please, please,” they cry, until their mandibles fairly quiver with 
eagerness. But none snatches it from your hand; they are too well disciplined 
in the treacherous ways of men for that. When at last the bit is flung— 
