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LARIDJE, 



STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS (Temminck*). 

 THE POMATOEHINE SKUA. 

 Lestris pomarinus. 



THE first notice of this species as a British bird appears 

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

 April, 1819, where, at page 32, lot 61, is "an undescribed 

 Gull, much allied to the Arctic, but greatly superior in size, 

 killed at Brighton " ; and lot 62, " a second example of the 

 same species, killed at Dover " ; and a third is referred to as 



* Lestris pomarinus, Temminck, Man. d'orn. p. 514 (1815) ; specific name 

 amended to pomatorkinus, from TTW/ZO (operculum) and piv (nasus), by Mr. Sclater 

 (Ibis, 1862, p. 297). 



