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SKUA. 



COMMON SKUA. SKUA GULL. SQUAW GULL. BEOW3T GULL. 



BONXIE. 



Lestris cataractes, JENYNS. Goui.n. TEJHMINCK. 



Larus cataractes, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK, 



Cataractes vutgaris, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Lestris A pirate vessel. Cataractes. Katarasso To drive headlong, 



to dash down. 



THIS stout bird belongs to the colder regions of the north 

 and south, as in Europe to Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, 

 the Ferroe Islands, Norway, and Scandinavia generally; in 

 North America, to Labrador, Newfoundland, Hudson's Bay, 

 and the adjacent parts towards the United States; in South 

 America, to the Straits of Magellan, Terra del Fuego, the 

 Falkland Islands, the New South Georgian Islands, and Ker- 

 guelin's Land; also to Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Specimens have, however, been obtained in more temperate 

 parts, as on the coasts of Germany, Holland, and France. 



In Yorkshire, they are occasionally seen on the coast in the 

 autumn and winter, but are never numerous; one a young 

 bird, was shot in December, 1853, near Scarborough. Sir 

 William Jardine has noticed them at times on the Solway 

 Firth, and far up the Firth of Forth, They similarly appear, 

 wandering southwards in the autumn, on the coasts of North- 

 umberland, Durham, Norfolk, four shot in the Yarmouth Roads, 

 October 7th., 1827, Essex, Kent, one at Greenwich, and another 

 at Sandwich, in the winter of the year 1800, and Sussex. In 

 Cornwall the species occurs, but not commonly, at Falmouth, 

 Penrvn River, and other places. Also in Devonshire; in April, 

 1850, one of these birds was caught near Plymouth in a net, 

 by some fishermen, as R. A. Julian, Esq., Jim., of Laira House, 

 has informed me. One, too, on the River Severn. One on 



