340 THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
An example in the Charterhouse Museum is dated 
Portsmouth, 1868. 
Mr. Hart's specimens were obtained near Christchurch, 
in October, 1879, and September, 1887. 
272. Stercorarius crepidatus. Richardson's 
Skua. 
An occasional visitor to our coasts during autumn and 
winter. Very rarely seen inland. 
Bury wrote that this bird made its appearance on the 
Solent " sufficiently often to have attracted the attention of 
the fishermen and others, who have given the bird a name 
not to be transcribed, derived from its habit of pursuing the 
gulls, and compelling them to disgorge the contents of 
their craw." 
More mentions that he saw one in pursuit of some 
black-headed gulls in September, 1856; and Mr. A. V. 
Willett also records its occurrence off the Island. 
Mr. Hart's specimens are dated from the neighbourhood 
of Christchurch, November, 1873; December, 1876; and 
October, 1879. 
The example in the Winchester College Museum was 
obtained at Crawley, in October, 1879. 
One was shot on Southampton Water, in November, 
1893. 
Kelsall has seen this bird once on the Solent, and 
was informed by Mr. Alexander Paris that he saw one 
being mobbed by jackdaws, off Barton Cliff, during the 
winter of 1904-5. 
