BONAPARTE GULL 



60. Larus Philadelphia. 14 in. 



Adult in summer. Hood lighter gray and not as 

 extensive as in the last two species; bill slender and 

 black; feet coral red; primaries white with black tips 

 and outer web of first one; mantle paler than either of 

 the last. In winter, the head is white with gray spots 

 back of the eyes. Young birds have the back mixed 

 with brownish and the tail with a band of black near 

 the tip, but the bill and primaries always separate this 

 species in any plumage from the other black-headed 

 gulls. Thes little gulls are one of the most beautiful 

 and graceful of the familv, but they are rarely found 

 in the U. S. with the dark hood. 



Nest. Of weeds and grass on the ground, but not in 

 the watery situations chosen by the preceding species. 

 The three eggs are olive-brown, marked with blackish 

 (1.90x1.30). 



Range. Breeds in the interior from Hudson Bay and 

 Northern Manitoba northward. Winters from Maine, 

 the Great Lakes and British Columbia southward. 



