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RICHARDSON'S SKUA. 



richard.son's arctic gull, 

 plate ccxxix. fig. ii. 



Lestris Kicltanhonii, . . . Jenyns. GrouLD. 

 Larits jJiintslO'cHs, . . . MoNTAor. 



These birds build both separately and in companies — 

 twenty or thirty pairs together. They make their nests 

 on some raised part of a marshy place, or the top of 

 a moory waste; the heath, moss, or grass thereon being 

 imbedded into a nest. 



The eggs are two in number. They are laid early 

 in June. 



