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SKUA GULL. 



Clajss IL 



Mr. Montagu gives it the following charac^ 

 ters. " Head, neck, tail, and whole under parts, 

 pure white ; back, scapulars, and wing, dusky 

 black; prime quills dusky, towards their end 

 black ; the point of the first is white with a 

 black tip; the second the same with only a- 

 white spot in the black ; the others very slightlj 

 tipped with white ; two or three of the scapu- 

 lars are also tipped with white; legs yellow; 

 irides pale yellow ; orbits red orange." Ed. ■ 



2. Skua* Larus Catarractes. L. grises- 

 cens, retniglbus rectrlcibus- 

 que basi albis, cauda subae- 

 quali- Lath. Ind. orn. 818. 

 id. Syn. vi. 385. id. Sup. ii. 

 332. 



Our Cataracta, I suppose the 

 Cornish Gannet. JVil. orn. 

 348. 



Mail Syn. av. 128. 



Cataractes. Sill. Scot. tab. 

 14. 



Sea Eagle. Sill. hist. Fife, 

 46. 



Le Goeland brun. Brisson 



cy. vi. 165. Hist, d'ois. viii 



408. 

 Pontopp. Norw. ii. 96. 

 Skua Hoirei. Clusii Exot. 



368, 369. 

 Larus Cataractes. Gm. Lin. 



603. 

 Skua. Brunnich, ornith. 33. 

 Feroensilus Skue. Islandis 



Skumr. Norvegis'KdiV-O&xn. 



Brunnich, 125. 

 Brown and ferruginous Gull. 



Br. Zool. 140. L. 6. Arct. 



Zool. ii. 247. 



Descrip- XHE length of this singular Gull is two feet; 

 the extent four feet and a half; the weight three 



