Order LARIFORMES. 
Family ETERC0RAR1IDM. 
No. 78. 
CATHARACTA ANTARCTICA. 
SOUTHERN SKUA. 
(Plate 59.) 
Lestbis antarcticus Lesson, Traits d’Orn., Livr. 8 e , p. 616, June lltli, 1831: Falkland Islands. 
Megadestris maccormicki A. J. Campbell, Emu, Vol. XXIV., pt. i., p. 77, July, 1924: Queenscliffe, 
Victoria. 
Catharacla antarctica Campbell, ib„ pt. n., p. 119, October, 1924: same bird; Mathews, Birds 
of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, etc., p. 116, October 16th, 1928. 
Catharacta antarctica batchelori Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. L., p. 11, October 31st, 1929: 
Queenscliffe, Victoria. 
At p. 116 ante I gave a description of this specimen. I have nothing 
further to add. 
I should like to make the following correction to The Official Checklist of 
the Birds of Australia, 1926 :— 
Page 21, No. 127, is Catharacta antarctica (Lesson), but the quotations 
G. 7, 21 = Gould’s Birds of Australia, Vol. VII., pi. 21. M. 122= Mathews’ 
Birds of Australia, Vol. II., pi. 122. H. 599 = Gould’s Handbook, Vol. II., p. 389. 
All belong to Catharacta lonnbergi Mathews, which is the bird most often found 
in the Australian seas. 
As far as I know the bird figured is the only example of Catharacta antarctica 
ever found in Australia. 
Distribution. Australia (one record, Queenscliffe, Victoria) to the Falkland Islands. 
Nest. Usually a mere hollow in the moss or on the ground, with fragments of moss, lichens or 
weeds from the vicinity as lining. 
Eggs. Clutch two. The ground-colour ranges from greyish-buff to olive-brown, sometimes with 
a tinge of reddish; covered with spots and blotches of sepia-brown or vandyke-brown, some¬ 
times very dark, and a few underlying ones of ashy-grey. Average measurements: 715 mm. 
by 49-9. 
Breeding-season. November and December (Falkland Islands). 
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