Re: mantle color of ? Kelp Gull
S. Harvey Mudd, MD (shm@codon.nih.gov)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:15:53 -0500
In view of the postings today about the color tone of the mantle of the St.
Mary's County ? Kelp Gull I am forwarding, with Bill Mauck's permission,
the following comment he emailed to me in response to my posting on the subject:
>"Also for what it's worth, make that 3 observers who think the mantle color
>of the ?Kelp Gull is as dark as the individual GBBG present within the
>limits of the viewing conditions we had at the time".
>
Bill Mauck
bill@ mauck.org
Taking into account Elliot Kirschbaum's assurance that both he and another
viewer judged the ? Kelp Gull to be a "darker, crisper black" than a Great
Black-backed seen "with the same lighting and facing the same direction", I
do think it quite likely that the color of the ? Kelp Gull is close enough
to that of Great Black-backed that any perceived difference may depend upon
the individual Great Black-backed with which the comparison is made.
Harvey
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