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RICHARDSON’S SKUA. 
AECTIC SKTJA. AECTIC GULL. AECTIC BIED. 
BLACK-TOED GULL. 
Lestris Richardsonii, 
11 crepidatus, 
Cataractes parasiticus , 
Larus parasiticus, 
n u 
Stercorarius Cepphus, 
“ longicaudus, 
Jenyns. Gould. 
Temminck. 
Fleming. Selby. 
Linnaeus. Gmelin. Pennant. 
Montagu. Bewick. 
Stephens. 
Brisson. 
Lestris —A pirate vessel. 
Richardsonii —Of Richardson. 
This Skua Gull, which, as will be seen on a reference to 
the synonymic names, was formerly supposed, in different stages 
of its plumage, to compose more than one species, is common 
in Europe—in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Feroe Islands, 
Spitzbergen, Scandinavia, and other parts of the north. Some 
have occurred on the coasts of Holland and Belgium, as 
reported by M. De Selys Longchamps. In Asia—in Siberia 
and Kamtschatka. Also in North America—in Greenland, and 
on the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson’s Bay. 
With us they breed in several of the Orkney and Shetland 
Islands, as Hoy and the Holm of Eday of the former; Noss, 
Unst, and Foula, of the latter; so too in the Hebrides, Islay, 
Jura, Uist, and Rum. 
Several examples have occurred on the shores of various 
counties in England, also inland. In Norfolk, a young one 
was shot at Lynn, in the estuary of the River Ouse, about 
the 1st. of October, 1854; one also, in the plumage of the 
second year, near the same place, September 16th., 1852. Two 
at Hunstanton, on the 11th. of the same month. One at 
