POMERINE SKUA. 



NATATORES. 



485 



LA niDM, 





THE POMERINE SKUA. 



Cataractes pomarinus, Pomerine Skua, Selby, Brit. Ornitli. vol. ii. p. 517. 



Lestris ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 281. 



„ striatus, ,, ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 53, adult. 



,, pomarinus, ,, Gull, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



,, ,, Stercoraire pomarin, Temm. Man.d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 793. 



The first notice of this species I am acquainted with, upon 

 which it is entitled to a place among our British Birds, is in 

 the sale Catalogue of Mr. Bullock's Collection, April, 1819, 

 where, at page 32, lot 61, is "an undescribed Gull, much 

 allied to the Arctic, but greatly superior in size, killed at 

 Brighton ; and lot 62, a second example of the same species, 



