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397. HypRocHELIDON LEUCOPAREIA

WauiskERED TERN.

An accidental visitor from Eastern Europe.

Genus Anous.
398. ANoUS STOLIDUS.

Noddy Tern.

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A bird common to many seas; it is not therefore surprising that a solitary individual has now and then

wandered to fish in our waters. It is a common species, very generally known, consequently not figured.

Subfamily STERCORARIIN A.

Genus STERCORARIUS.

Parasitic Gulls are to a certain extent affined to the Petrels, and for this reason have been placed next

them in the present volume. Members of this group, which are eight or ten in number, frequent the seas of

both hemispheres, are tyrants of the ocean, waging war and domineering over all the birds, and robbing

them of the fish they have taken.

399. SrERCORARIUS CATARRHACTES
GREAT Sxkua.

Found all round our seas at one season or the other. Breeds in the Orkneys.

400. SrercoraRIus POMATORHINUS
PoMATORHINE SkKUA.

A constant winter visitor. Breeds in Lapland and Finmark.

401. SrercoraRIus PARASITICUS
Arctic Skua.
Resident around our coasts. Breeds in Orkney and Shetland.
402. SreRCORARIUS LONGICAUDUS

LonG-TAILED Sxkua.

A rare winter visitant from the north-eastern seas.

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