628 LARIM. 



pale green, the larger end blotched and spotted with two 

 shades of reddish-brown; the length two inches three 

 lines, by one inch six lines and a half in breadth. 



In the young bird, from which our figure is taken, the 

 cere and base of the bill are greenish-brown, the curved 

 point black ; the irides*very dark brown ; feathers of the 

 head and neck clove brown, with narrow margins of wood- 

 brown ; back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail-coverts 

 umber brown, each feather margined with wood brown, 

 these margins being broadest on the tertials, the lower part 

 of the back, and the upper tail-coverts ; great wing-coverts 

 nearly uniform umber brown ; wing -primaries blackish- 

 brown, the shafts of these feathers and a considerable 

 portion of the inner webs white ; tail feathers umber brown, 

 the two middle tail-feathers in this young bird not more 

 than half an inch longer than the next feather on each 

 side ; chin, throat, breast, belly, and vent mottled with 

 buff-coloured brown, produced by narrow alternate trans- 

 verse lines of clove brown, and wood brown ; under tail- 

 coverts broadly barred across with umber brown and wood 

 brown ; legs and base of the toes yellow, anterior part of 

 the toes and their intervening membranes black. 



The whole length of this bird to the end of the tail- 

 feathers next the central pair, is twenty inches ; wing from 

 the anterior bend fourteen inches and a quarter. The com- 

 parative measurements in an adult bird would be twenty- 

 one inches, and fifteen inches. I have seen a specimen of 

 the Pomarine Skua in the collection of Mr. Bond, which 

 was obtained alive when a young bird in the varied plumage 

 of its first year, which assumed the uniform chocolate brown 

 plumage during its second year ; some specimens barred 

 across the breast have been named Lestris striatus, as 

 noticed by Mr. Eyton ; and I have seen two fine old birds, 

 dove grey on the back, with the head black, the neck, 



