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LARID&. 



THE POMATOEHINE SKUA. 



Stercorarius pomatorhinus. 



From the frozen north, where Winter's hand 

 With sway despotic and untam'd locks up 

 The shrinking world ; o'er the wide ocean borne 

 On vigorous wing, pour forth the feat her' d tribes 

 Diverse and strange. 



REV. JOHN VINCENT, Fowling. 



IN the autumn months this visitor from the arctic regions 

 is occasionally seen on the coast of Berwickshire, where, in 

 the middle of October 1879, great numbers were observed, 

 as well as on the shores of Northumberland, many of them 

 being shot for preservation as specimens. The Pomatorhine 

 Skua has a rapid flight, is bold and rapacious, and fre- 

 quently robs Gulls of their prey. It breeds in the polar 

 regions. 



