606 



NATATORES. 



LARID.E. 



LARTDJE. 



THE POMERINE SKUA. 



Lestris pomarinus. 



Cataractes pomarinus, Pomerine Skua, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 517. 



Lestris JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 281. 



striatus, EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 53, adult. 



pomarinus, Gull, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Stercoraire pomarin, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 793. 



THE first notice of this species I am acquainted with, upon 

 which it is entitled to a place among our British Birds, is 

 in the sale Catalogue of Mr. Bullock's Collection, April, 



