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[GRINNELL-STORER] PLATE 41 |
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California Gulls on Paoha Island, Mono
Lake. Photographed by Joseph Dixon (a, May 27, 1916; b, c,
July 3, 1916; top, left to right).
a. Adults, in altercation.
b. Downy young, newly hatched.
c. General view, with many partly grown young herded off-shore by
the old birds.
See text, p. 249.
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[GRINNELL-STORER] PLATE 42 |
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Long-eared Owls as photographed at the
Farrington ranch, near Williams Butte. a. Female sitting on eggs
in depression on an old magpie's nest, May 4, 1916. (top) b.
Young about eighteen days old, in another magpie's nest, May 19, 1916.
(bottom) See text, p. 301.
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[GRINNELL-STORER] PLATE 43 |
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a. Band-tailed Pigeons feeding on
grain scattered in chickenyard in Yosemite Valley. Photographed May 1,
1916. (top) See text, p. 276. b. Nuttall Poorwill resting on
ground. (middle) Photograph taken near Williams Butte, June 22, 1916.
See text, p. 344. c. Great Gray Owl (crippled; bottom).
Photographed at Mono Meadow, June 19, 1915. See text, p. 306.
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[GRINNELL-STORER] PLATE 44 |
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The principal diurnal birds of prey of
the Yosemite region, as seen overhead in flight (left, top to bottom;
then right, top to bottom):
a. Marsh Hawk, male adult. b. Western Goshawk, male adult.
c. Western Red-tailed Hawk, male adult. d. Golden Eagle,
immature. e. Turkey Vulture, adult. f. Sharp-thinned Hawk,
male adult. g. Cooper Hawk, male adult. h. Swainson Hawk,
male adult. i. American Sparrow Hawk, male adult. j.
Prairie Falcon, female adult.
For comparative descriptions and accounts, see text, pp. 279-296.
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