S70 BIRDS OF MIDDLESEX. 



young bird of this species was shot some years 

 ago at Kingsbury ; the exact date I have been 

 unable to ascertain, but the capture of this spe- 

 cimen is recorded in ' The Zoologist' for 1843. 



Another example, also a young bird, was killed 

 near Harrow in 1841, and, more recently, a third was 

 picked up dead in Wembley Park. Mr. Yarrell men- 

 tions an example of this species that was shot some 

 years since in Hackney Marshes, near London, and 

 observes that early in the winter of 1837 many 

 were received in the London markets for sale, 

 and among them were eight or ten birds which had 

 been caught alive. 



I have latelj' seen a young Pomarine Skua which 

 was shot on the Thames, towards the mouth of the 

 river, in August, 1862. 



Eichardson's or Arctic Skua, Lestris Richard- 

 sonii vel parasitica. The following notice relating 

 to the occurrence of this species in Middlesex occurs 

 in Yarrell's ' British Birds,' vol. iii., p. 633 : — *' Some 

 years since I saw a young bird that had just been 

 shot on the Thames at Battersea ; and in the autumn 

 of 1842 four young birds of the year were shot on 

 the Eeservoir at Kingsbury, a few miles north of 

 London. Two of these specimens were more uni- 

 formly dark brown than the other two, from having 

 lost many more of the light brown margins of the 

 first set of feathers." 



In the * Zoological Journal ' for April, 1825, 



