OF THE NETHERLANDS. 



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CURSORIIDAE. 



152. Cursorius gallicus (Gmelin). [Renvogel]. 



No indigenous specimen is in the collection. The bird has 

 occurred three times in our country. 



Laridae. 



153. Megalestris skua (Brüunich). [Groote jager]. 



Of this species, which is very rare in our country, we 

 possess no indigenous skin or stuffed specimen. We have 

 only the skeleton of a female, labelled Holland, 25 October 

 1856 (van Oort, Cat. Ost. Ois. 1907, p. 200, Megalestris 

 skua — a). 



154. Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). [Middelste 

 jager]. 



Since 1904 we received only one specimen, a young male, 

 killed in February 1907 near Hedel in the province of 

 Gelderland, a locality tolerably far inland. 



155. Stercorarius parasiticus (L.). [Kleine jager]. 



Stercorarius parasiticus, Lönnberg, Zoologist, 1903, p. 338. 

 Stercorarius crepidatus, Saunders, C. B. Br. M. XXV, 

 1896, p. 327. 



The Museum purchased eight specimens, all killed on the 

 island of Texel : 



9, 30 August 1907, dark brown witb pale cinnamon-brown 

 edges to the feathers; head and nape pale cinnamon, 

 undersurface greyish brown. Wing 300 mm., bill 30 mm. 



9, 1 September 1907, similar to the preceding but under- 

 surface less greyish. Legs grey, webs black, in the upper 

 part fleshy white. Wing 300 mm., bill 29 mm. 



cT, 1 September 1907, nearly uniform dark brown, the 

 uppersurface with some pale cinnamon edges to the 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



