The sea-elephant and sea-leopard are characteristic. Penguins of various kinds are abundant; a teal (Querquedula Eatoni) peculiar to Kerguelen and the Crozets is also found in considerable numbers, and petrels, especially the giant petrel (Ossifraga gigantea), skuas, gulls, sheath-bills (Chionis minor), albatross, terns, cormorants and Cape pigeons frequent the island. [Please select]
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There is a difference, however, between the skuas and the gulls, though they bear a family likeness. [Please select]
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FAMILY LARIDÆ (GULLS, TERNS, SKUAS) _SUB-FAMILY STERNINÆ_ Bill straight, rather slender; mandibles of about equal length. [Please select]
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Placed in the next family are the seven robber Gulls or sea pirates--Skuas. [Please select]
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Before his advent that strip of wild sea-coast had been, mercifully, without its skuas. [Please select]
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The skuas had increased considerably in numbers by November 4, and frequently came to the scrap-heap outside our hut. [Please select]
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A perpetual feud was carried on between the penguins and the skuas. [Please select]
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The bitterness of the penguins' hatred of the skuas was well shown in the neighbourhood of our scrap-heap. [Please select]
Skuas are large (22 inches in length) and very powerfully built birds, having the general form of a Gull. [Please select]
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Very rarely did one of these leave the heap until another came to relieve it as long as there were skuas about, but when the skuas went the penguins left it too. [Please select]
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