. A history of British birds . of those of the back, are streaked and marginedwith greyish-white. The whole length is twenty-four totwenty-five inches; the wing from the anterior bend sixteeninches. The female is quite as large as the male, and the sexes donot differ in appearance ; nor does this species assume withage the lighter colour of the underparts observed in someother members of this genus. Mr. G. T. Fox says of oneexample which had been kept alive ten years, that theplumage had undergone no change of colour at any of theannual moultings. A specimen brought to Dr. Neill in thesummer o
. A history of British birds . of those of the back, are streaked and marginedwith greyish-white. The whole length is twenty-four totwenty-five inches; the wing from the anterior bend sixteeninches. The female is quite as large as the male, and the sexes donot differ in appearance ; nor does this species assume withage the lighter colour of the underparts observed in someother members of this genus. Mr. G. T. Fox says of oneexample which had been kept alive ten years, that theplumage had undergone no change of colour at any of theannual moultings. A specimen brought to Dr. Neill in thesummer of 1820, when a nestling, was alive at the Cannon-Mills in October, 1843, being then in its twenty-fourthyear, but Dr. Neill sent the Author word at that time, thathe feared his old Skua would not survive the winter. Theplumage had become very pale, and the head especiallygreyish-white. Melanic varieties are occasionally met with,but they are uncommon. The nestling is covered with a buffish-grey down, ruddieron the upper (J68 GA VIJU. LARID^.
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