Zoo Notes 
one of the three sub-families of the family 
Laride, the other two being Sternine and 
Larine. Professor H. N. Moseley, in his 
“Notes ’ made during the voyage of H.M.S. 
“Challenger,” observes: “The Skua is a 
eull which has acquired a sharp, curved 
beak, and sharp claws at the tips of its 
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but their principal food here appears to be 
the night birds, especially the prions, which 
they drag from their holes, or pounce on as 
they come out of them. The place was 
strewed with the skeletons of prions, with 
the meat torn off them by these gulls, 
which leave behind the bones and feathers.” 
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webbed toes. The birds are thoroughly 
predaceous in their habits, quartering their 
ground on the look-out for carrion, and 
assembling in numbers where there is any- 
thing killed, in the same curious way as 
vultures. They steal eggs and young birds 
from the penguins when they get a chance, 
The Prions referred to above are a genus 
of petrels, a characteristic of which is the 
great breadth of their bill at the base 
and the denticulated or serrated edges of 
their mandibles. No specimen of the prion 
is recorded as ever having been exhibited 
at the Zoo. 
