. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . toethe same length. The adult male has the face, top of the head and nape,back, scapulars, tail, and rump, sooty brown; the chin, lowerpart of the face, and all the under parts white; the sides ofthe neck and upper part of the breast are more or less tingedwith ochrous yellow; the lower part of the breast, sides ofthe belly, vent, and under tail-coverts are dashed with ashgrey, and slightly tinged with yellow and sooty brown; thebeak is bluish on the cere, and black at the tip and undermandible; the legs are black ; the eyes are brown
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . toethe same length. The adult male has the face, top of the head and nape,back, scapulars, tail, and rump, sooty brown; the chin, lowerpart of the face, and all the under parts white; the sides ofthe neck and upper part of the breast are more or less tingedwith ochrous yellow; the lower part of the breast, sides ofthe belly, vent, and under tail-coverts are dashed with ashgrey, and slightly tinged with yellow and sooty brown; thebeak is bluish on the cere, and black at the tip and undermandible; the legs are black ; the eyes are brown. The immature plumage is entirely sooty brown, paler onthe under parts, and having a cinereous bloom over all parts,extending even over the legs and feet. As this species is, like the other skuas, several years be-fore it arrives at maturity in its plumage, much diversity of 180 LARID^E. appearance may frequently be observed among the differentpairs, young and old being indifferently matched toge-ther. The egg figured 315 is that of the 31Z.
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