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Identifier: practicalhandboo21418with (find matches)
Title: A practical handbook of British birds
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Witherby, H. F. (Harry Forbes), 1873-1944
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Witherby
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ks. Eggs.—Normally 2-3 but 4 have beenrecorded, ground-colour ranging from stone-colour to umber-brown,occasionally pale bluish-green or rarely reddish-brown, blotched,spotted or streaked with dark umber and ashy. Average of 115Spitsbergen eggs, 76.81x53.98. Max. : 89x60.9 and 79.6x63.2.Mn.: 69x56.1 and 75.5x50.8 mm. Breeding-season.—From endMay to mid-June in Spitsbergen, but late layings may be found tillJuly. Incubation.—Doubtful whether male takes part. Period 27-28days (Swenander). Single brooded. Food.—Carrion (dead whales, blubber, reindeer, walrus, bear, etc.),birds (Little Auk, Kittiwake, Guillemot, young Ivory-Gull, woundedDucks, Coot, etc.), also great numbers of eggs and young of Brun-nichs Guillemot ; droppings of large mammals (Polar bear andseal), fish (alive and stranded), Crustacea (chiefly crabs), amphipoda,star-fish, echini, mollusca, garbage of all kinds, algae (chiefly Alariaesculenta), and berries of Empetrum nigrum. Vol. II., Plate 12. :■■::.;■ VV-
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VW (Face- P. 768 THE ICELAND GULL. 769 Distribution.—British Isles.—Winter-visitor, exceptional summer.Most frequent and occasionally abundant east coast Great Britainfrom Shetlands to Norfolk. Frequent north and west Ireland.Elsewhere rare and occasional, although apparently regularO. Hebrides. Adults very rare in south and west. Distribution.—Abroad.—Breeds Iceland, Bear Island, Spitsbergen,coasts and islands of north Russia and Siberia, Greenland and N.America south to Newfoundland. In winter south to Mediterranean,Black and Caspian Seas, in Pacific Ocean to Kauai and Maui(Hawaiian Is.), in America to California, Pennsylvania, N. Carolinaand Indiana. Once Madeira, once Azores, once Gulf of Akaba(Red Sea). LARUS GLAUCOIDES* 458. Larus glaucoides Meyer—THE ICELAND GULL. Larus glaucoides Meyer, Zus. & Ber. Meyer & Wolfs Taschenb.deutsch. Vogelk. p. 197 (1822—Seas of Arctic zone, for ex. Iceland,sometimes migrants German coasts. Restricted typ. loc. Iceland).Larus i

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  • bookyear:1920
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  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Witherby__H__F___Harry_Forbes___1873_1944
  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:London__Witherby
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
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