Franklin's gull

Review bycanaryswear· 2026-11-04

It also lives in the water. Its head is black; its eyes are also black; white [feathers] are set on the eyelids [so that these] appear to be its eyes. It is somewhat long-necked. The throat and breast are white. Down the back of its neck, on its back, its tail, wings, wing tips, it is black. The tips of both wing-bends are white. Its legs are quite long, chili-red, slender. There is realiy not very much to its body, but it is quite tall. Some migrate, some remain and rear their young here. Four are its eggs; only on the ground, on dried mud, on the plain, or somewhere on the top of a clod it lays its eggs; not on grass nor feathers. It is edible. ... It is white, like a dove; its head is adorned [black and white]. It is a sea dweller, an ocean dweller. It is called pipixcan because when it is about to freeze, when the maize is about to be harvested, it comes here.