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POMERINE SKUA. 



POMEBINE GULL. POMERIJTE JAGER. 



Lestris pomerinus, JENYXS. GOULD. TEMMI^CK. 



" striatus, EYTON. 



Cataractes pomarinus, SELBY. 



Lestris A pirate vessel. Pomerlnus ? 



THE Pomerine Skua visits the shores of France and Holland, 

 and one or two are seen every year on the Swiss lakes in the 

 winter. It comes from the north, and is known in Denmark, 

 Sweden, and Norway, where it breeds, Iceland, and in the 

 Faroe Islands. 



In America it is not uncommon in Hudson's Bay, New- 

 foundland, Greenland, and the Arctic regions generally. 



A specimen occurred in Derbyshire near the village of 

 Burnaston, September 23rd., 1854: it was driven about, and 

 knocked down by some Books. Others in Norfolk, at Blakeney, 

 in December, 1847. The species is of occasional occurrence 

 along the coast, but mostly in the autumn, and generally in 

 the immature state of plumage. One was taken in Sussex 

 in the village of Ovingdean, in October, 1844. 'It had struck 

 down a White Grull, which it would not quit; it was kept 

 alive about a fortnight, and then died. The very first day 

 of its captivity it (is said to have) devoured twenty-five 

 Sparrows. Once it escaped, and immediately attacked a Duck, 

 which it held till re-captured.' Another was obtained at 

 Brighton; one in Kent, at Dover; and one in Lancashire, 

 at Liverpool. In Cornwall, an adult example of this species 

 was killed near Penzance, in Mount's Bay, the beginning of 

 October, 1851. 



In Oxfordshire, one occurred near Oxford in February, 1854, 

 and another in November, 1848. One in the collection of the 



