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page 422, vol. iii, Mr. Yarrell states: ‘‘I have notes of one killed 
at Milford Haven, in the autumn of 1839.” Then, in the 
Zoologist for 1892, page 423, Mr. Charles Jefferys, of Tenby, 
relates the capture by himself of an immature Sabine’s Gull, on 
November rath, that year, near the village of Amroth. ‘ There 
was a strong wind blowing in shore and a heavy sea. It was 
late in the afternoon, almost dusk, and the bird was flying along 
the surf-line, as if looking for food. It was in good condition, 
and is now being preserved.” Mr. C. Jefferys has since informed 
us that this specimen is now in the Kelvin Grove Museum at 
Glasgow. Sabine’s Gull is another very small species that is 
extremely rare in this kingdom in its pretty adult plumage in 
which it has a dark, lead-coloured cap and throat, the latter en- 
circled by a black ring. It breeds beyond the Arctic circle, and 
its forked tail, and the angle at the symphysis of the under 
mandible, make it to be easily distinguished in all plumages from 
the Little Gull, with which we have known it to be occasionally 
confounded. After rough weather in the autumn this small 
Gull is not very rare along our south-western coasts. 
GREAT SKUA, Stercorarius catarrhactes—The Skuas, or Parasitic 
Gulls, pass our coasts in the autumn on their way south from 
their breeding stations in the north. In fine weather they keep 
far out at sea, and it is only after exceptionally severe gales that 
some of them are seen on the coasts. The Great Skua, a very 
powerful and courageous bird, has nesting places on the Shetland 
Isles, at Unst and Foula, where they are now preserved, or they 
would soon have become exterminated by collectors of birds’ 
skins and eggs. All the Skuas kill and devour other birds, and 
are greedy feeders upon carrion, and will chase and rob other 
Gulls of their fish. The Great Skua is included by Mr. H. 
Mathias in his list. He saw a specimen in Tracy’s shop at 
Pembroke. Sir Hugh Owen informs us that it is always to be 
seen in Goodwick Bay in a good herring season ; that he has 
noticed it to be a very bold and savage bird, and that he has 
shot it on Goodwick sands while eating carrion. It is dark 
