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FAUNA OF NEAY ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



STERCORARIID.AE. 



N. H. — Uncommon migrant offshore. Sept. 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant and summer \isitor offshore; 

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



R. I. — Rare migrant offshore: Charlestown Beach, three, Sept. 

 2, 1897. 



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

 1875. 



18. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. 



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

 Whiptail. 



Vieill., Xouv. diet, d'hist. nat., 1819, vol. 32, p. 157. "le xord 

 DE l'Europe, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique." 



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

 vol. 7, p. 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 alhus 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 cliff's. 



