Class II, 



SKUA GULL 



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carrion. Its egg is very blunt at each end ; of a 

 dufky olive color, quite black at the greater end > 

 and the reft of it thinly marked with dufky fpots. 



I have feen on the coaft of Anglefea, a bird that 

 agrees in all refpects with this except in fize, in 

 wanting the black fpot on the bill, and in the 

 color of the legs, which in this are of a bright yel- 

 low : the extent of wings is only fourjeet five: 

 the length only twenty-two inches : the weight one 

 pound and a half. This fpecies, or perhaps va- 

 riety (for I dare not affert which) rambles far 

 from the fea, and has been fhot at Buljlrode, in 

 Middle/ex. 



Our Catarc.cia, I fuppofe the SkuaHoirei. Clujli Exot. 36S, 243. Skua, 



Cornijh Gannet. Wil. or'n. 369. 



348. Larus Catara&es. Li?i. fyji. 



Rail fyn. osj. 128. 226. 



Cataraftes. Sibb. Scot. tab. Skua. Brunnicb, ornith. 33. 



14. Fero€7ifibus Skue. IJlandii 



Sea Eagle. Sibb. bifl. Fife. Skumr. A r or-^^/V Kav-Oern. 



46. Brunnichy 125. 



Le Stercoraire raye. Brijfon Brown and ferruginous Gull, 



a-v. VI. 152. Br. Z00L 140. 

 Pofitopp. Nor™. II. 96. 



>TpHE length of this Angular Gull is two feet: Descri? 



the extent four feet and a half: the weight 

 three pounds : the bill two inches one fourth long, 

 very much hooked at the end, and very fharp: 

 the upper mandible covered more than half way 



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