blue-gray coloring ; that a Saaite tail, in all ‘buat one 2 variety, os 
the rare Sabine gull, is straight at the rear end; that a 
kittiwake’s tail is slightly forked; while a tern’s is deeply 
cleft; and that the jaeger’s tail has the two central feathers | 
prolonged three or four inches so that it ends in a long 
point. Then, he might also show you that a gull in flying 
usually has its bill in a straight line with the body, while 
the tern, like a evn crane [ly, carries its bill point down- 
ward. 
All the dark culls, except ‘hs an s gull, wiian | 
in summer has a white head with its dark body, and which 
is seldom seen, as it only makes flying visits about the 
mouths of the Western inlets after its breeding season in 
the far south, are the youngsters of these strong-winged 
birds. If your guide were willing to let you into more secrets 
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by which he knows the different sorts of gulls, he might _ 
point out that the commonest cull about the big cities of 
- Oregon and Washington is the Glaucous-winged Gull. 
If these birds have passed their third birthday, they 
are huge white creatures with a gray cape thrown over the 
back and the upper part of the wide-spread wings, which — 
are white-tipped with no black trimming of any kind. They, 
and their dark youngsters, just as big and just as lazy, love 
_ to loaf on the tops of docks, or sit on piles, or railings, of 
the landing places of the summer homes about the shore 
of the great salt sound. There the mates and mottled young 
chuckle and scream to one another, seeming to discuss the 
_ oddities of the passengers on the passing eee fleet to 
while away time between meals. 
_ Black and white on the wings, the size of the bird, the 
color of the feet, the bill, the body, and the mantle (the back 
and the upper surface of the wings) are marks that catch 
an observer’s eyes as the bird floats upon the air, stands 
upon the dock signs, dashes after a scrap of food, or slowly _ 
- folds together its wings as it drops upon the waves, if he 
wants to know gulls. He can learn through scientific books 
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