. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ey consider a luckyomen; and in return for his attendance they give it the refuseof the fish which are caught. The Skua Gull does not asso-ciate in groups, and it is seldom that more than a pair areseen together. The nest is constructed amongst the heath ormoss; the female mostly laying two eggs, but sometimesthree. Young.—The young differ very
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ey consider a luckyomen; and in return for his attendance they give it the refuseof the fish which are caught. The Skua Gull does not asso-ciate in groups, and it is seldom that more than a pair areseen together. The nest is constructed amongst the heath ormoss; the female mostly laying two eggs, but sometimesthree. Young.—The young differ very little from the adult, thefeathers generally, being, however, more broadly marginedwith reddish-brown. Remarks.—One of the most remarkable circumstancesrelative to the history of this species is its occurrence in the 486 LESTRIS CATARRACTES. southern hemisphere, Avhere it has been met ^vith in theStraits of Magellan, and plentifully at Port Egmont in theFalkland Islands. It has not been recorded as occurring onthe coasts of North America ; hut in Iceland, Spitzbergen,and Nova Zembla, it is said to be indigenous. Specimenshave also been procured on the western coasts of Europe, asfar south as France. 487 LESTRIS POMAHINUS. THE TOMARINE Cataractfs romariiius. Stcph. Sh. Zool. XIII Poniariu. Lestris Poinarinus. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. Skua. Cataractcs Pomarinus. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Uru. II. Pomaiimis. Lonap. Conip. List, 63. BUI an inch and three-fourths in Icmfth ; tarsus twoinches, very rough behind, icith pointed scales ; middle tail-feathers about two inches longer than the rest, broad andabrupthj rounded. Adult leith the bill light greenish-grey ;the feet black ; the feathers of the neck with stijfish glossyfilaments; the general colour of the upper parts blackish-broxon ; throat and lower parts white. Adult Male in Summer.—The Pomarine Skua, inferiorin size to the Common, is also of a somewhat less rohiistform, though sti
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