Cuiass II. SKUA GULE. 
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 
at the root, and with shafts of the same color. 
The legs are covered with great black scales ; 
the talons black, strong and crooked ; the inte- 
rior remarkably so. 
This bird mmhabits Norway, the Ferroe isles, 
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- 
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