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POMERINE SKUA. 
POMERINE GULL. POMERINE JAGER. 
Lestris pomerinus , 
“ striatus , 
Cataractes pomarinus, 
Jenyns. Gould. Temminck. 
Eyton. 
Selby. 
Lestris —A pirate vessel. 
Pomerinus —. 
The Pomerine Skua visits the shores of France and Holland, 
and one or two are seen every year on the Swiss lakes in the 
winter. It comes from the north, and is known in Denmark, 
Sweden, and Norway, where it breeds, Iceland, and in the 
Faroe Islands. 
In America it is not uncommon in Hudson’s Bay, New¬ 
foundland, Greenland, and the Arctic regions generally. 
A specimen occurred in Derbyshire near the village of 
Burnaston, September 23rd., 1854: it was driven about, and 
knocked down by some Rooks. Others in Norfolk, at Blakeney, 
in December, 1847. The species is of occasional occurrence 
along the coast, but mostly in the autumn, and generally in 
the immature state of plumage. One was taken in Sussex 
in the village of Ovingdean, in October, 1844. ‘It had struck 
down a White Gull, which it would not quit; it was kept 
alive about a fortnight, and then died. The very first day 
of its captivity it (is said to have) devoured twenty-five 
Sparrows. Once it escaped, and immediately attacked a Duck, 
which it held till re-captured.’ Another was obtained at 
Brighton; one in Kent, at Dover; and one in Lancashire, 
at Liverpool. In Cornwall, an adult example of this species 
was killed near Penzance, in Mount’s Bay, the beginning of 
October, 1851. 
In Oxfordshire, one occurred near Oxford in February, 1854, 
and another in November, 1848. One in the collection of the 
