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States, or in the f Fauna Boreali- Americana/ but its distribution 
sonthward is much greater than that of the others. It is very 
remarkable that it should be found at the extreme south of the 
continent of America — within 50° and 54° S. latitude, as is 
known to ornithologists. An adult male bird procured during 
the Antarctic Voyage at “Bird Island, East Ealklands,” was in- 
cluded in a valuable collection of birds presented by Capt. Grozier, 
R.N., of H.M.S. Terror , to the Belfast Museum. 
THE POMARINE SKUA. 
Lestris pomarinus, Temm. 
Stercorarius „ „ (sp.) 
Is of occasional occurrence in autumn and winter on 
various parts of the coast. 
I contributed the following notice to the Zoological Society in 
1835, when announcing this bird as an addition to our Eauna. 
“ Of this skua, three individuals were procured in different parts 
of Ireland within a short period, about the commencement of 
the winter of 1834-5. The first, purchased alive at Youghal, 
county of Cork, on the 12th of October, was caught upon a hook 
at sea, and lived for a few weeks, part of which time it was in the 
gardens of the Zoological Society of Ireland. The second speci- 
men was shot in Belfast Bay, on the 18th of October, and is in 
the collection of the museum of that town. “ Its weight was six- 
teen ounces ; — in its stomach were a rat, fish-bones, and feathers.”* 
These birds were immature : the latter, which came under 
my own examination when recent, agreed precisely in plumage, 
&c., with Mr. Selby’s description of the young (vol. ii. p. 519). 
The third, an adult bird, was shot from among a flock of gulls in 
the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on the 5th of November, and with the 
first- mentioned came into the possession of R. Ball, Esq., of that 
city (p. 7 9) : — these two were subsequently added to the museum 
of Trinity College. Two young individuals, both of which I saw. 
* Dr. J. D. Marshall. 
