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This fine bird, which. breeds in a restricted area in 
Shetland, is very rare on the Norfolk ‘coast. 
Sasa VIII, 
commences with the Pomatorhine Skua, an uncertain 
but sometimes rather numerous visitor to our shores; 
two others, Richardson’s and Buffon’s Skuas, claim 
attention, the former breeds in the northern division 
of the kingdom and adjacent Isles, and is by far 
the most common species on our coast; the latter, 
known as the Long-tailed Skua, from the two centre 
feathers extending sometimes as much as nine inches 
beyond the other feathers of the tail, is circum-polar 
in its habitat, and seldom visits us, especially in adult 
plumage. Of the Oceanic birds, perhaps the best 
known, is the Storm Petrel, a swallow-like bird, 
which rough weather at sea frequently brings to 
our shores sometimes in large numbers. ‘The same 
may be said to a less degree with regard to the Fork- 
tailed Petrel. Some rare birds of the genus Puffinus 
and its allies have been met with in Norfolk; 
unfortunately they are not in the Museum collection. 
Examples of the Manx and Greater Shearwaters 
will be seen, and of the Fulmar, which seldom visits 
the shore, but is often rather numerous out at sea; it 
is a handsome, powerful-looking bird, and breeds in 
some of the Scotch Islands. Of Bulwer’s Petrel, a 
southern species of this wandering family, we are 
unable to exhibit a Norfolk-killed specimen, but it 
will be found represented. 
The Divers which follow, commence with the Great 
Northern Diver, the largest of its kind, which, with the 
Black-throated and Red-throated Divers, are met with 
fishing off our coast, but generally in immature plu- 
mage; fine specimens, however, will be seen in the 
