On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, Eugene Hunn wrote:

> Tweets,
>
> Re. light-eyes on Thayer's. It depends on what one means by "light"
> perhaps. My impression of ("typical"?) Herring Gull adults is that their
> irises are almost white, color of white gold perhaps, really glaring,
> while the ground color of Thayer's, and the dominant color when the brown
> flecking is minimal is more a rich yellow. Do others agree?

I'd say yellow was the color of the Thayer's gull we were looking at.
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