174 SKUA GULL. Crass Il. . 
_ 
_ Mr. Montagu gives it the following charaec- 
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 slightly. 
tipped with white; two or three of the scapu- 
lars are also tipped with white; legs yellow; 
irides pale yellow; orbits red orange.” Ep. 
2. Sxva, Larus Catarractes. L. grises- av. vi. 165. Hist. dots. vil 
cens, remigibus rectricibus- 408. ’ 
que basi albis, eauda subse- Pontopp. Norw. ii. 96. . 
quali. Lath. Ind. orn. 818. Skua Hoirei. Clusiz Exot. 
id. Syn. vi. 385. 1d. Sup. il. 368, 369. 
332. Larns Cataractes. Gm. Lin. 
Our Cataracta, I suppose the 603, 
Cornish Gannet. Wil.orn. Skua. Brunnich, ornith. 33. 
348. Feroensilbus Skue. Islandis 
Rait Syn. av. 128. Skumr. Norvegis Kay-Oern. 
Cataractes. Sibb. Scot. tab. Brunnich, 125. ~ 
14. Brown and ferruginous Gull. 
Sea Eagle. Silb. hist. Fife. Br. Zool. 140. L. 6. Arct. 
46. Zool. ii. 247. 
Le ‘Goeland’ brun. Brisson 
Descrip- THE length of this singular Gull is two feet ; 
we the extent four feet and a half; the weight three | 
