10 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



STERCORARIIDAE. 



N. H. Uncommon migrant offshore. Sept. 



Mass. Uncommon migrant and .summer visitor offshore; 

 rare in winter. May 31-Oct. 14 (Jan., Feb.). 



R- I. Hare migrant offshore: Charlestown Beach, three, Sept. 

 2, is; )?. 



Conn. Rare migrant offshore: Bridgeport; Portland, fall, 

 1875. 



IS. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. 



Long-tailed jaeger; Buffon's jaeger or skua; Marlinspike; 

 Whiptail. 



Vieill., Nouv. diet, d'hist. nat., 1819, vol. 32, p. 157. "le nord 

 de l'Etjrope, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique." 



Lestris parasiticus Linne. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, 

 vol. 7, ]). 192, pi. 453. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 117, pi. 37, fig. 5. 



Largely marine; nests on the ground. 



Me. Rare migrant offshore. 



Vt. Accidental migrant: West Castleton, Sept. 7, 1877. 

 Mass. Rare migrant. Spring; Aug. 24-Sept. 29. 

 Conn. Rare or accidental visitor: Community Lake, Walling- 

 ford, Aug. 30, 1873. 



LARIDAE. 



19. Pagophila alba (Gunnerus) Coues. 



Ivory gull. 



Larus albus Gunn., in Leem's Beskriv. Finmark. Lapp., 1767, 

 p. 285 (note). Northern Norway. 



Larus eburneus Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 7 

 p. 150, pi. 445. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 115, pi. 32, fig. 3. 



Arctic seas, following the pack ice; nests on rocky cliffs. 



