How is This For a Rare Egg? — “There 
is now on view in a shop window in Kirkwall,” 
says the Pall Mall Gazette four eggs of the 
Great Skua, a bird of peculiar habits and now 
almost extinct in Britain. Indeed, its only 
known nesting place is the remote Island of 
Foula, Shetland. So ruthlessly is the bird 
pursued for its now valuable eggs that last 
year out of about twelve nesting pairs only 
two eggs were hatched. A tourist who vis¬ 
ited Foula Island this year paid $200 for one 
P.crcr ” 
0.& O.Vol.l7,Mar.l892 p. 44 
