LIST OF BIRDS MORE OR LESS COMMON 

 IN THE VICINITY OF TACOMA, SEATTLE 

 AND GENERAL PUGET SOUND DISTRICT. 



NOT DESCRIBED ELSEWHERE IN THE BOOK. 



HEERMAN GULL. 



This gull is "rather common in summer" about Seattle. 

 More common on the Straits. A sluggish bird, fond of rid- 

 ing on driftwood. Sometimes called White-headed Gull. 

 Summer resident. Bill, vermilion throughout, or else 

 black on tip; eyelids, red; head and neck all around, pure 

 white; remaining upper parts, plumbeous slate, lightening 

 on rump, changing to ashy on upper tail-coverts; under 

 parts, deep ashy-gray; feet and legs, reddish black. In 

 winter, head darker. Length, 17.50 to 21.00, 



NORTHWESTERN COAST HERON. 



See Great Blue Heron in book. This bird only slightly 

 different; very little smaller on the average; darker colora- 

 tion; upper parts, " bluish -slaty black instead of slaty-blue." 

 Dawson & Bowles. Length, 40 + 



VIRGINIA RAIL. 



Common summer resident. A snipe-like bird with 

 long, slender and slightly curved bill, 1.50; long legs. 

 Found in fresh and salt water marshes. Upper parts, 

 olive-brown, streaked with black; wings, with reddish- 

 brown patch; breast, cinnamon-brown; flanks, black, 

 marked with white. Length, 9.50. 

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