. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . , Mayo, and Sligo, and next to the HerringGull is the most abundantly distributed species inthe breeding season. On the Bog of Allen, in , between Edenderry and Rathungan, asmall colony was found nesting in June 1898(Palmer, Irish Nat., 1898, p. 186). The Lesser Black-backed Gull, when nearenough to be seen clearly, may be recognised byits bright yellow legs; the Greater Black-backedGull has the legs and feet flesh
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . , Mayo, and Sligo, and next to the HerringGull is the most abundantly distributed species inthe breeding season. On the Bog of Allen, in , between Edenderry and Rathungan, asmall colony was found nesting in June 1898(Palmer, Irish Nat., 1898, p. 186). The Lesser Black-backed Gull, when nearenough to be seen clearly, may be recognised byits bright yellow legs; the Greater Black-backedGull has the legs and feet flesh colour, as in theHerring Gull, the two last-named differing in thecolour of the mantle, which in the former is darkslate colour, in the latter pearl o P5 o -^° ^ ffi o & o u (^ d o Ph O SKUAS 305 GREAT SKUA. Lestris catarractes (Linnaeus), PI. 35,figs. 9, 9a. Length, 22 in.; bill, 2-5 in.; wing, 15-5in.; tarsus, 275 in. The name of this bird is said to be derivedfrom its cry shui-shui ( Fauna of Sutherland, ). Sixty years ago there were three separatebreeding stations in the Shetlands : one is nowcompletely deserted, and in the other two (Unstand Foula) the birds which resort there to nest arenow being as much as possible protected. But for the protection afiforded in the nesting-season by Mr. Thomas Edmonston in Unst, and thedifficulty of reaching the distant island of Foula bybird collectors, the species would have been extinctas a British bird years ago. See Mr. R. M. Barring-tons report on the Great Skua in Foula, as observedin June 1890 [Zool., 1890, pp. 297, 354, 391, 434),and an article by Prof. Newton {Field, March 21,1891). See also a letter from Mr. Thomas Edmon-ston on the protection of this bird in Unst in Th
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