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brown, while in the fresh one they are of a rich deep brown ; and “ the feathers on the 
back, scapulars, and wing-coverts ” have an extremely narrow edge of reddish-yellow. 
The bird on the whole is considerably darker and richer in plumage than that described 
in the work referred to. 
The measurements of three others of the immature (and of the 
adult bird, which was nineteen ounces in weight) are before me, 
but it is unnecessary to repeat any of them, they differ so little 
from the one noticed ; two were eighteen, one eighteen and a half, 
and the other nineteen inches in total length, with corresponding 
differences in other measurements. 
A young pomarine skua (agreeing with Mr. Selby's description), 
was shot in Tralee Bay on the 20th of November, 1850, and 
others of this or allied species seen there during the storm of 
that day and the next.* 
One adult bird only has been obtained in Ireland, and it was 
the first in this plumage noticed within the British Islands. Mr. 
Yarrell remarked, in 1843, that “many more examples, most if 
not all of them young birds, have been obtained " (vol. iii. p. 486, 
1st edit.). He did not particularize any adult as procured in 
Great Britain, but mentioned having seen two, without stating 
where they were killed. 
The pomarine skua does not breed within the British Islands. 
A number of them were seen by Capt. May along the coast of 
Norway, in the summer and autumn of 1849. 
BICHABX) SON'S SKUA. 
Lestris Richardsonii, Swainson, Yarrell. 
Is occasionally procured on the coast. 
The following notice of it, which I contributed to the f Annals of 
Natural History ' in 1840 (vol. v.), may perhaps be worth repeat- 
ing here : — 
Lestris Richardsonii, Swains. Richardson’s Skua. — An adult Lestris shot at 
Malahide, county of Dublin, on the 27th September, 1837, and in the collection of 
* Mr. R. D. 1'itzgerald, jun. 
