The compound effect of slender bill, rounded head-profile and relatively large eye gives last month's mystery gull (plates 132 & 133, page 227, repeated here at reduced size) a jizz which instantly narrows the choice to one of the smallest species. Taking size and the all-dark bill alone into consideration, the possibilities are Franklin's Laru spipixcan, Little L. minutus, Bonaparte's
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