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LESTRIS POMARINUS. THE POMARINE SKUA. 



Fig. 90. 



Cataractes Pomarinus. Steph. Sh. Zool. XIII 216. 

 Stercoraire romarin. Lestris Poinariuus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 79.3, 

 Pomarine Skua. Cataractes Pomarinus. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Orn. II. 517. 

 Lestris Pomarinus. Bonap. Comp. List, 63. 



Bill an inch and three-fourths in length ; tarsus two 

 indies, very rough hehind, with pointed scales ; middle tail- 

 feathers about two inches longer than the rest, broad and 

 abruptly rounded. Adult with the bill light greenish-grey ; 

 the feet black ; the feathers of the neck with stijfish glossy 

 filaments ; the general colour of the upper parts blackish- 

 brown ; throat and loioer parts lohite. 



Adult Male ix Summer. — The Pomarine Skua, inferior 

 in size to the Common, is also of a somewhat less robust 

 form, though still strongly constructed, the body being full, 

 the neck of moderate length, the head large, ovate, ante- 

 riorly narrowed. 



The bill is shorter than the head, stout, nearly as broad 



