CLass II. SKUA GULL. i^^ 



pounds. The bill is two inches one fourth long, 

 very much hooked at the end, and very sharp ; 

 the upper mandible covered more than half way 

 with a black cere or skin as in the hawk kind ; 

 the nostrils are placed near the bend, and are 

 pervious. The feathers on the head, neck, back, 

 scapulars, and coverts of the wings, are of a 

 deep brown, marked with rust color, brightest 

 in the male. The shafts of the primaries are 

 white ; the end and exterior side of the first is 

 deep brown ; the ends only of the rest brown, 

 the lower parts on both sides being white ; the 

 secondaries marked in like manner, forming a 

 great bar of white. The breast, belly, and vent, 

 ferruginous, tinged with ash color. The tail, 

 when spread, is circular, of a deep brown, white 

 ^t the root, and w'ith shafts of the same color. 

 The legs are covered with great black scales ; 

 the ta;lons black, strong and crooked ; the inte- 

 rior remarkably so. vcs edbg:: i:sj1j b-uim irs 



This bird inhabits Norway^ the Verrot isles. History. 

 Shetland, and the noted rock Foula, a little 

 west of them. It is also a native of the South 

 sea. It is the most formidable Gull^ its prey, 

 being not only fish, but what is wonderful in a 

 web-footed bird, all the lesser sort of water 

 fowl, such as teal, &c. Mr. Schroter, a sur- 



