442 VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF LAKELAND 



Thomas Mann, fell in with two full-dressed adults (in change), 

 on October 17 th, one of which he secured. He fired at the 

 other but lost it ; this was possibly the bird which Mr. W. 

 Hodgson picked up dead at Workington on October 19th. Bob 

 Law shot a bird in the one-year-old plumage on October 19th, 

 and Mr. Glaister winged a similar bird the same day. Mr. 

 Nicol shot another on Skinburness marsh on October 23d. 

 Storey the punt-gunner killed another year-old bird on the 

 Wampool, which he stuffed (after a fashion) and brought to me. 

 Mr. Lomas found another dead inland, a year-old bird. Some 

 unknown person shot a full-dressed bird at Silloth about 

 October 17th, which I examined at the house of James Barnes. 

 Yet another year-old bird wandered up the Eden valley into 

 Westmorland, and was shot near Lowther on October 23d. 

 Several others appear to have been seen but not obtained. 

 About the same time a similar flight visited Walney Island, 

 where about a dozen specimens were reported to me as having 

 been shot. I only examined three of this number, two of them 

 freshly killed, and these were year-old birds. At least one 

 adult in more or less full dress appears to have been killed on 

 Walney, but as the birds fell into private hands no particulars 

 could be ascertained. It is noteworthy that the only specimens 

 shot in possession of the long central rectrices were the birds 

 obtained by Mr. T. Mann at Allonby, by Mr. Hodgson at 

 Workington, and by two unknown persons at Walney and 

 Silloth. Not a single bird is known to have been shot on our 

 coast in really young plumage. Ten of those which I have 

 examined were in the one-year-old plumage, and I understand 

 that an additional specimen telegraphed near Allonby is in the 

 same stage. These birds were all in some stage of change, and 

 much varied with grey. They were very similar to a bird presented 

 to the Zoological Society about the same time by Mr. Hart of 

 Christchurch. The bird which Mr. Glaister winged came into 

 my possession by his kindness. Like the Hants' bird, exhibited 

 in the Fish House of the Zoological Gardens, my captive Skua 

 fed heartily on shrimps. It was a tame bird, and when crouch- 

 ing on the carpet made a very pretty picture, its dark eyes 

 beaming with intelligence. It was however in poor plight. 



