394 LAKID.E. 



brown, while in the fresh one they are of a lich deep brown ; and " the feathers on the 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts " have an exti'emely narrow edge of reddish-yellow. 

 The bird on the whole is considerably darker and richer in plumage than that described 

 in the work referred to. 



The measurements of three others of the immature (and of the 

 adult bird^ which was nineteen ounces in weight) are before me, 

 but it is unnecessary to repeat any of them, they differ so little 

 from the one noticed ; two were eighteen, one eighteen and a half, 

 and the other nineteen inches in total length, with corresponding 

 difl'erences in other measurements. 



A young pomarine skua (agreeing with Mr. Selby's description), 

 was shot in Tralee Bay on the 20th of November, ISSCJ, and 

 others of this or allied species seen there during the storm of 

 that day and the next.^ 



One adult bird only has been obtained in Ireland, and it Avas 

 the first in this plumage noticed within the British Islands. Mr. 

 YarreU. remarked, in 1843, that "many more examples, most if 

 not all of them young birds, have been obtained " (vol. iii. p. 486, 

 1st edit.). He did not particularize any adult as procured in 

 Great Britain, but mentioned having seen two, wdthout stating 

 where they were killed. 



The pomarine skua does not breed within the British Islands. 

 A number of them were seen by Capt. May along the coast of 

 Norway, in the summer and autumn of 1849, 



EICHAEDSON'S SKUA. 



Lestris liichardsonii, Swainson, YarrelL 



Is occasionally procured on the coast. 



The following notice of it, which I contributed to the ' Annals of 

 Natural History ' in 1840 (vol. v.), may perhaps be worth repeat- 

 ing here : — 



Lestris Richardsonii, Swains. Richardson's Skua. — An adult Lestris shot at 

 Malahide, county of Dublin, on the 27th September, 1837, and in the collection of 



'' Mr. R. D. Fitzacrald. iiin. 



