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KITTIWAKE. 



' RiSSA TRIDACTYLA. 



.Char. .Mantle deep pearl gray ; head, neck, tail, and under parts 

 white ; ends of outer wing-feathiefs — the primaries — black, tipped with 

 white; bill greenish yellow ; legs and feet black, length 15J4 inches. 



In winter 'the back of the neck is iriore or less suffused with gray. 

 Youhg birds have a black bill ; patch on back of neck, shoulders, and 

 terminal band on the tail brownish black. ^ 



JVest. '■ In a colony on the ledges of a cliff or on the mossy turf of an 

 island,: occasionally amid the sand or shingle of a sea-beachj usually 

 made of sea-weed or other coarse herbage from "the drift," lined with 

 grass or moss; soinetimes, a few feathers are added. Each year the bulk 

 is increased by the addition of material. Nests have been found which 

 were mere depressions in tjie sand, sparsely lined with grass. 



■Eg^s. 2-4; buff of various shades of broWn tinted with olive, marked 

 with brown and lavender ; average size 2.20 X 1.60. 



; The . Kittiwake, or Tarrock, is found in the north of bpth 



continents. It inhabits Newfoundland, Labrador, the islands 



in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, the coasts of the Pacific, 



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