I think the COMPLETE lack of head streaking rules these out but nice
thoughts.

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Eugene Hunn wrote:

> Gene Hunn, Seattle, re. Jim Elder's mystery gull.
>
> Other perhaps off-the-wall possibilities include Slaty-backed (pale eye and
> highly variable mantle color to as pale perhaps as California), Vega Herring
> Gull (from Siberia) which I think would have an iris like our Herring but
> which is somewhat darker, perhaps Mew Gull shade. Both Slaty-backed and Vega
> Herring (or a hybrid between them) would have a less heavy bill than a
> Western or Glaucous-winged X Western. However, both should by now have
> rather heavily streaked heads.
>
>

Jim Elder (jime at eskimo.com)
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