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POMATORHINE SKUA 
in Douglas Bay in November 1903. It was caught on a 
hook, and after being kept alive for a short time came into 
the possession of Mr. G. Adams, who still has it. 
This apparently disappearing species is a rare bird round 
the Irish Sea, as generally on British waters, but has been 
obtained on most of the surrounding coasts. It has a few 
breeding colonies in Shetland, where under protection its 
numbers have of late increased. On passing from its 
northern stations it appears to affect the eastern rather 
than the western, coast of Britain. 
STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS (Tern- 
minck). POMATORHINE SKUA. 
An immature specimen was taken in Mr. Dickinson's 
garden at Ashfield, near Douglas, in October 1890, and is 
now in the Eamsey collection. 1 During this and the 
following month several occurred in Ireland, where the 
species is rare. It is a straggler in Galloway and 
Cumberland, but apparently rather more frequent on 
the Lancashire coast. It is most abundant on the east 
side of England. In Orkney and Shetland it has 
appeared rarely, but seems more frequent off the Outer 
Hebrides. 
1 Some confusion and error, for which the author thinks he is partly responsible, 
has got into the entries of Pomatorhine and Richardson's Skuas in Y. L. M., 
iii. p. 541. He is not sure that he can now quite clear the matter, but believes that 
the records of a Pomatorhine Skua • caught in a garden at Douglas in 1889,' that 
of another 'taken at Glencrutchery, near Douglas, 15th November 1890,' and 
that of an immature Richardson's Skua, 'taken in a garden, near Douglas, 
October 1890, in stormy weather,' all refer to the same specimen, that men- 
tioned above. 
