397. H y d r o c h e l id o n l e u c o p a r e ia . . . . . . . . . Vol. V. PI. LXXVII.
W h i s k e r e d T e r n .
An accidental visitor from Eastern Europe.
Genus A n o u s .
398. A n o u s s t o l id u s .
Noddy Tern.
A bird common to many se a s ; 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 kuown, consequently not figured.
Subfamily STERCORARIIN/E.
Genus S t e r c o r a r iu s .
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 o f the ocean, waging war and domiueering over all the birds, and robbing
them o f the fish they have taken.
399. S t e r c o r a r iu s c a t a r r h a c t e s . . . . . . . . . Vol. V, PI. LXXVIII.
G r e a t S k u a .
Found all round our seas a t one season o r the other. Breeds in the Orkneys.
400. S t e r c o r a r iu s p o m a t o r h in u s . . . . . . . . . Vol. V. PI. LXXIX.
POMATORHINE SKUA.
A constant winter visitor. Breeds in Lapland and Finmark.
401. S t e r c o r a r iu s p a r a s i t ic u s . . . . . . . . . . Vol. V. PI. LXXX.
A r c t i c S k u a .
Resident around our coasts. Breeds in Orkney and Shetland.
402. S t e r c o r a r iu s l o n g i c a u d u s ....................................................................................... Vol. V. PI. LXXXI.
L o n g -t a i l e d S k u a .
A rare winter visitant from the north-eastern seas.
Genus P u f f i n u s .
Three or four birds of this form frequent the seas of the British Wands, two of which have been figured,
and there can be no doubt as to the propriety of so d o in g ; but I may state that there are others occasionally
found here which are not well understood, or have not been properly worked out. Having myself collected
these birds round the entire globe, I could not fail to remark the vast number of species I met with. In my
■ Birds o f Australia’ forty species are either figured o r enumerated, and I feel assured that the list may be
greatly added to on a closer research than I could give of the seas I had at that time (1 8 3 8 -4 1 ) the
opportunity o f traversing.
Vol. V. PI. LXXXIII.
404. P u f f i n u s m a jo r
G r e a t S h e a r w a t e r .
A bird which almost yearly visits the seas o f the Land s End.
Vol. V. PI. LXXXIV.
405. P u f f i n u s a n g l o r u m ......................................................................................................
M a n x S h e a r w a t e r .
Breeds commonly on one or more of the Scilly Islan d s; and, as it is also found here in winter, it may be
considered a resident species.
Genus ASs t r e l a t a .
406. ALs t r e l a t a h j e s it a t a .
Capped Petrel.
Has once been taken in England.