ON BIRDS FROM THE NETHERLANDS, 217 
Veere, province Zeeland; three further specimens were 
received, two shot near Texel 29 December 1908 and 27 
January 1909, the other 1 January 1909 on the Zuider- 
zee near den Helder. 
Grus grus (L.). 
A young female, shot 28 October 1908 at Deurne, pro- 
vince Noord-Brabant, is presented to our collection by Mr. 
R. van Eecke. 
Crymophilus fulicaria (L.). 
I purchased two examples, a male in winter dress, shot 
3 December 1908 near Texel and a specimen, also in 
winter dress, in which the sex could not be determined, 
shot 3 December 1908 on the Zuiderzee near the Anna 
Paulownapolder. 
Megalestris skua (Briinnich). 
The most important additions to our collection of indi- 
genous birds are two specimens of the great skua, which 
we received this winter; a female, shot 5 December 1908 
on the sandbank „Razende Bol” near Texel, and a male, 
shot 12 March 1909 near the polder ,,Kendracht’”’ in the 
north of Texel. 
Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). _ 
We purchased one specimen, a male, caught in the middle 
of December 1908 near Hornhuizen, Groningen. It is a 
bird of the second year; back, rump, wings and tail dark 
brown, the feathers edged with pale cinnamon; head and 
undersurface greyish brown, obscurely barred with pale 
greyish cinnamon; sides of body and under tailcoverts 
more distinctly barred; under wingcoverts and axillaries 
blackish brown, barred with white. Wings damaged, bill 
34,5 mm. 
Stercorarius parasiticus (L.). 
We received two young specimens in the dark brown, 
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