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RICHARDSON'S SKUA. 



AECTIC SKTJA. ABCTIC GTJLL. AECTIC BIET). 

 BLACK-TOED GTJLL. 



Lestris Richardsonii, JENYNK. GOULD. 



" crepidatus. TEMMINCK. 



Cataractes porasiticus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Larus parasiticus, LINN^US. GMELIN. PENNANT. 



" " MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Stercorarius Cepphus, STEPHENS. 



" longicaudus, BmssON. 



Lfstris A pirate vessel. Richardsonii Of Richardson. 



THIS Skua Gull, which, as will be seen on a reference to 

 the synonymic names, was formerly supposed, in different stages 

 of its plumage, to compose more than one species, is common 

 in Europe in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Feroe Islands, 

 Spitzbergen, Scandinavia, and other parts of the north. Some 

 have occurred on the coasts of Holland and Belgium, as 

 reported by M. De Selys Longchamps. In Asia in Siberia 

 and Kamtschatka. Also in North America in Greenland, and 

 on the coasts of Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson's Bay. 



With us they breed in several of the Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands, as Hoy and the Holm of Eday of the former; Noss, 

 Unst, and Foula, of the latter; so too in the Hebrides, Islay, 

 Jura, Uist, and Rum. 



Several examples have occurred on the shores of various 

 counties in England, also inland. In Norfolk, a young one 

 was shot at Lynn, in the estuary of the River Ouse, about 

 the 1st. of October, 1854; one also, in the plumage of the 

 second year, near the same place, September 16th., 1852. Two 

 at Hunstanton, on the llth. of the same month. One at 



