196 ALASKA. 



^' The Lupus uever flies iu flocks ; it pairs early, aiul is theo 

 exceedingly quiet. I bave never heard it utter a sound save a 

 low, droning croak, when disgorging food for its young. 



" The chick comes out a perfect puff-ball of white dowu,^ 

 gaining its first plumage in about six weeks. It is a dull gray^ 

 black at first, but by the end of the season it becomes like the 

 parents in coloration, only much darker on the back and scap- 

 ularies. j 



" They are the least edible of all the birds about the islands. 

 Like others of the family, they vomit up the putrid contents 

 of their stomachs upon the slightest provocation." 



540. Stercorariiis poiiiatoiiiinus, YiEiLi^.—Pomarine Jciger. "Raz- 



boi-nik." 

 Larus parasiticus, Mey. et Wolf. Tascb. Deutscb., 11, 490, (1810.) 

 Lanis creindatus, Gm. L. N., i, G02, ( 1788. ) (Qu. tes Sterc. striatus 



Briss.) 

 Les'tris striatus, Eyton. Br. Birds, 53. 

 Stercorarius iwmarinns, Yieill. Nonv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii,. 



158, (1819.)— COUES. Proc. Pbil. Acad., 129, (18G3.) 

 Stercorarius jyomatorhinus, Coues. Key, 309, (1872.) 

 Cataractes pomarinus, Steph. Gen. Zool., xiii, 21C, pi. 24, (1825.) 

 Cojirotlieres pomarinus, Reich, Syst. At., 52, (1580.) 

 Cataractes parasita var. camtschaiica, Pallas. Zoog. Rosso-As.., 



ii, 312,(1811.) 



^'A rare visitor. The specimen secured was the only one 

 seen on the islands. It was found on the high, mossy uplands, 

 perched in a listless attitude on a tussock of grass." 



541. Stercorarius parasiticus, (Bruxx.) Q-r ax. —Parasitic Jdgcr. 



Catharacta parasitica, Bruxx. Orn. Bor., 37, (1764.) 

 Larus parasiticus, Lixx. Syst. Nat., i, 226, (176 j.) 

 Cataractes parasita, Pall. Zoog. R. A., ii, 310, (1811.) 

 Lestris parasita, Illiger. Prod., 273, (1811.) 

 Lestris parasitica, Keys et Blas. Wirb. Eur., 1, 240, (1840.) 

 Stercorarius parasiticus, GUay. Gen. of B., 10, 652, (1849.) — Lawr. 

 B. N. A., 839, (1858.)— Coues. Pr. Pbila. Acad., 133, (1863.)— 

 Dall et Baxn. Tr. Cbicago Acad., i, 303, (1869.) 

 Lestris richardsoni, Sw. F. B. A., 11, 43.3, pi. 73, (1831.) 

 Stercorarius richardsoni, Coues. Proc. Pbila. Acad., 135, (1863.) 

 Cataractes richardsoni, Macgillivray. Man. Orn., ii, 257, (1842.) 

 Catharacta coprothcres, Bruxn, Orn. Bor., 38, (1764.) 

 Lestris coprotheres, DesMurs. Traits Ool., 551, (1860.) 

 Stercorarius crcpidatus, Vieill. Nouv, Diet., xxxii, 155, (1819.) 



(Not ofGmeliu.) 

 Lestris crepidata, Deglaxd. Mem. Soc. Roy. Lille, 108, (1838.) 

 Stercorarius cepphus, Sw. F. B. A., ii, 432, (1831.) 

 Lestris hardyi et spinicauda, Bp. Consp. Av., ii, 210, (1856.) 



