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POMERINE SKUA. 



POMERINE JAGER. 

 PLATE CCXXVIII. PIG. I. 



Cataractes pomerinus, STEPHENS. 



Lestris pomerinus, TEMMINCK. SABINE. 



THIS Skua Gull builds by the margin of lakes in marshy places, as 

 well as in more rocky ones. 



The nest is composed of different grasses and moss. 



The eggs are two or three in number, and of a yellowish grey colour, 

 spotted with blackish brown. 



J. E. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford, obligingly 

 forwarded the egg from which the engraving is taken. 



