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STEKCOBAKIUS CATAKEHACTES. 



(COMMON SKUA.) 



Larus fuscus, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 165 (1760). 



Catharacta skua, Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 33 (1764). 



Larus catarractes, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 226 (1766, ex Briinn.). 



Cataracta skua, Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 161. no. 123 (1800). 



Catarractes skua, Pall. Zoog. Rosso As. ii. p. 309 (1811). 



Lestris catharractes, Illiger, Prodromus, p. 273 (1811). 



Lestris catarractes (L.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 511 (1815). 



Catarracta fusca, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 40 (1816). 



Stercorarius catarrhactes (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxii. p. 154 (1819). 



Cataractes vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. Animals, p. 137 (1828). 



Lestris cataractes (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 715 (1831). 



Lestris skua (Retz.), C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 716 (1831). 



Stercorarius ptomarinus, Vieill. Galerie des Ois. p. 220 (1834). 



Megalestris catarrhactes (L.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 11 (1856). 



Buphagus skua (Retz.), Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1863, p. 125. 



Skua, Bonxie, English ; Labbe cataracte, French ; grosse 'Raubmove, German ; groote Jager. 

 Dutch ; Stor-Kjove, Danish ; Skuir, Fseroese ; Hakalla-skumur, Icelandic ; Skua, Nor- 

 wegian. 



Figurw notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 21 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xliii. ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 58. 

 fig. 7 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 270 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 79. fig. 3 ; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 439 ; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 78 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 334 ; Vieill. 

 Gal. Ois. pi. 288; Elliot, B. N. Am. ii. pi. 56. 



8 ad. corpore supra saturate fusco, pileo saturatiore, nuchse et colli postici plumis laneeolatis et centraliter 

 ochraceo striatis : dorsi plumis ferrugineo et ochrascenti-ferrugineo notatis : uropygio et supracau- 

 dalibus fere omnino saturate fuscis : remigibus nigro-fuscis, primariis ad basin albis : tectricibus alarum 

 saturate fuscis, ferrugineo notatis : cauda, nigro-fusca, ad basin albo notata, rectricibus centralibus vix 

 elongatis': corpore subtiis fusco vix. ferrugineo tincto, gutturis plumis centraliter ochraceo striatis, 

 hypochondriis vix ferrugineo lavatis : rostro nigro, ad basin pallidiore : iride fusca : pedibus nigris vix 

 plumbeo tinctis. 



2 baud a mare distinguenda. 



Adult Male (Fseroes). General coloration dark brown, marked with yellowish red; crown dark, almost 

 uniform brown, upper parts dark brown, the feathers with rusty red or yellowish rusty tips, those on 

 the hind neck with yellowish shaft-markings ; rump and upper tail-coverts almost uniform dark brown ; 



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