392 LARID^. 



States, or in the ' Fauna Boreali- Americana/ but its distribution 

 southward is much greater than that of the others. It is very 

 remarkable that it should be found at the extreme south of the 

 continent of America — within 50° and 54° S. latitude, as is 

 known to ornithologists. An adult male bird procured during 

 the Antarctic Voyage at " Bird Island, East Palklands/^ was in- 

 cluded in a valuable collection of birds presented by Capt. Crozier, 

 R.N., of H.M.S. Terror, to the Belfast Museum. 



THE POMARINE SKUA. 



Lestris pomarinus, Temm. 

 Stercorarius „ „ (sp.) 



Is of occasional occurrence in autumn and winter on 

 various parts of the coast. 



I coNTTiiBUTED the following notice to the Zoological Society in 

 1835, when announcing this bird as an addition to our Fauna. 

 " Of this skua, tlu'ee individuals were procured in different parts 

 of Ireland within a short period, about the commencement of 

 the winter of 1834-5. The first, purchased alive at Youghal, 

 county of Cork, on the 1 2th of October, was caught upon a hook 

 at sea, and lived for a few weeks, part of which time it was in the 

 gardens of the Zoological Society of Ireland. The second speci- 

 men was shot in .Belfast Bay, on the 18th of October, and is in 

 the collection of the museum of that town. " Its weight was six- 

 teen ounces ; — in its stomach were a rat, fish-bones, and feathers."^ 

 These birds were immature : the latter, which came under 

 my own examination Avhen recent, agreed precisely in plumage, 

 &t., with Mr. Selby's description of the young (vol. ii. p. 519). 

 The third, an adult bird, w^as shot from among a flock of gulls in 

 the PhcEuix Park, Dublin, on the 5th of November, and with the 

 first- mentioned came into the possession of E. Ball, Esq., of that 

 city (p. 79) : — these two w'ere subsequently added to the museum 

 of Trinity College. Two young individuals, both of which I saw, 



* Dr. J. D. Marshall. 



