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(three immature and three fairly adult), and one Pomatorhine Skua 
nearly adult. 
1865. Several specimens of the Pomatorhine, Eichardson’s, and 
Euffon’s Skuas were killed off Yarmouth late in October, vdth 
Gannets and Divers. Immense shoals of Ileriings off the 
coast. 
1867. In the '^Zoologist’ for this year (p. 1013) I recorded the 
occurrence in jN’orfolk of several Euffon’s Skuas, two or three in 
adult plumage, with a Pomatorliine and a Eichardson’s Skua, both 
immature; all killed between the 20th of September and the ITtli 
of October, this season being also remarkable for an abundance of 
Herrings off the east coast. 
1870. Between the 17th and 26th of October, Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
jun., saw in Leadeidiall Market (said to have come from Yarmoutli) 
nine or ten specimens of the Pomatorhine Skua, all immature, and 
one Great Skua. In the same autumn, also, an immature Eichard- 
son s Skua was shot at Blakeney on the 27th of August, one young 
Pomatorhine at Lynn on September 13tli, and another at the same 
place on October 10th. * 
1872. Mr. E. T. Bootli observed three young Pomatorhine 
Skuas off Breydon on the 8tli of October, and lastly, in 
1874. In the last week of October one adult Eichardson’s Skua 
and twelve Pomatorhines (age not stated) were recorded in tlie 
Norwich ‘ lhaily Press,’ as brought into Yarmouth by the smacks. 
One game dealer, as I learnt afterwards, from my late friend IMr. 
r. Erere, had thirty Skuas at one time. There was a heavy gale 
off Yarmouth on the 20th, and much damage done to the shijjping 
in the “ Eoads.” 
As regards variation of plumage I have known no more puzzling 
group than the Skuas since I first took up the study of British 
Ornithology, and from Bewick’s time to the third edition of Yarrell 
one gets little help from so-called “authorities,” who, like ordinary 
collectors, would seem to have erred in their descriptions and 
* This was, also, a great Herring season, extraordinary catches being made 
within fourteen miles of Yarmouth. IMr. G. Fennell, in the ‘Field’ of 
October 2!)th, 1870 (p. .‘lOS), describes, grapliically, the scene in the 
Yarmouth Fishmarket, when, on one day only, the “glut” consisted of 
1500 “lasts” of Herrings, each “last” comprising 13,200 lish ; total, 
19,800,000 ! ! 
