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and have several times observed them flying over our parish, at 

 some elevation, but I have never seen it except when it was thus 

 crossing over, apparently from one channel to the other. Only the 

 other day, when engaged in a cricket match at Clarendon Park, I 

 noticed three of these fine birds passing over at no very great 

 height. I have a very fine bird in my collection, which was brought 

 to my brother when in Northumberland, near Alnwick, and which 

 the fishermen, having slightly wounded, had been pursuing nearly 

 the whole of the day. 



Larus Glaucus. " The Glaucous Gull.'' This species is nearly, 

 if not quite, as large as the Great Black-backed Gull ; but it is 

 quite a rarity amongst us, only one being now and then seen, and 

 that almost always in immature plumage. Hart has never seen it 

 at Christchurch in full plumage. He had one sent in to him in 

 1877, and one he bought for his own collection from Grantley 

 Berkeley's but both these are immature birds. 



Larus Leucopterus. " The Iceland Gull." This is, again, one of 

 the northern Gulls, and can be distinguished from the others, as 

 well as the last-named one, by white piimaries. One or two speci- 

 mens occurred at Christchurch in 1874-75, and one in January, 

 1883 ; but all these, again, were immature specimens. 



Rissa Tridactyla. " The Kittiwake." Very common throughout 

 the Christchurch district, and always to be seen in the winter 

 months off the pier at Bournemouth. It is essentially a maritime 

 bird, and of very pretty soft plumage in its adult state. The young 

 birds are called Tarrochs, and are marked with black on the back 

 and wings, presenting quite a different appearance to the adult. 

 The old birds derive their name from their cry, which, consisting of 

 three notes uttered quickly, is supposed to resemble the word 

 Kittiwake. 



Stercorarius Catarrhactes. " The Great Skua." The various 

 species of Skua that we now come to, form quite a different group 

 from the Gulls, and may be termed the " Bullies of the Sea." 

 They have crooked bills and claws, with which they tear their prey; 

 and they devour not only fish, but some of the smaller water birds, 

 as well as carrion of various kinds. They rarely take the trouble 



