88 



LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS. 



the ground, sometimes in trees, composed of 

 weeds and sticks; eggs, 2-4, brown mottled 

 Fig. 57. Fig.^58. with darker. Food, which 

 consists of fishes, other sea 

 animals, and floating gar- 

 bage, is securred by the 

 birds swooping downward 

 at an angle, and, although 

 when catching living fish, 

 gulls occasionally become 

 submerged, I have never 



Jaegers 1-2; Parasitic, Lon -tailed. 



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larly. Some eat dead fishes which are cast 

 on shore, and a few feed upon insects. Cries, 



Fig. 59. 



Ring-billed Gull. 



often harsh but sometimes modulated and 

 not unmusical. Immature plumage quite 

 unlike the adult. 



