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Show Fighting Bird One of the most powerful of all birds, and able to fly long dis-i dis-i tances, the great skua is seldom caught, but a dead specimen has been presented to the museum at the Smithsonian Institute in Wash-: Wash-: ington. It was brought down in the Atlantic. The skua lives on penguins' eggs and chicks, and t scores of half-eaten birds may be seen near the sites of penguin col- onies during the hatching season. I A famous British aircraft is named after the fierce, killing skua. |