128 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



(formerly), northern Illinois, and northwestern Indiana. Winters from 

 central Chile, central Argentina, and Patagonia south to the Falkland 

 Islands; occurs in migration casually in Ontario and on the Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts from Maine to Florida and Alabama and on the Pacific coast from 

 southern British Colmnbia (Vancouver Island) to Lower California and the 

 Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. 



Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



Lobipes Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817 [Dec. 7, 1816], 495. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Tringa hyperborea Linnaeus = Tringa lobata Linnaeus. 



Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus). Northern Phalarope. [223.] 



Tringa tobata [sic] Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 17.58, 148, [lohata in 

 Emendanda, 824]. Based on the Cock Coot-footed Tringa Edwards, 

 Nat. Hist. Birds, 143. (in America septentrionali, Lapponia = Hudson 

 Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Pribilof Islands, northern Alaska, Melville Island, 

 and central Greenland south to the Aleutian Islands (including Near Islands), 

 Prince William Sound, valley of the Upper Yukon, northern Mackenzie (?), 

 northern Manitoba, southern James Bay, and northern Quebec (Ungava); 

 also from Iceland, the Faroes, Orkneys, Hebrides, Ireland (rarely), Norway, and 

 Russia east to Siberia and the Commander Islands. Migrates on the ocean off 

 both coasts of North America and through interior Canada and the United 

 States to Patagonia, also through Eurasia to north Africa and southern Asia. 

 Winters off the coasts of Peru and West Africa. Casual in Pennsylvania, 

 Bermuda, and Hawaii. 



Suborder LARI. Skuas, Gulls, and Terns. 

 Family STERCORARIIDAE. Jaegers and Skuas. 



Genus STERCORARIUS Brisson. 



Stercorarius Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 56; VI, 149. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Stercorarius Brisson =Larws parasiticus Linnaeus. 



Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). Pomarine Jaeger. [36.] 



Lesfris pomarinus Temminck, Manuel d'Orn., 1815 [1814], 514. (les 

 regions du cercle arctique; de passage accidentel sur les cotes de HoUande 

 et de France = Arctic regions of Europe.) 



Range. — Breeds from Banks, Somerset, and Melville islands and central 

 Greenland to northwestern Alaska and northern Mackenzie; also in the 

 Eastern Hemisphere from Iceland and Spitzbergen along the Arctic coasts of 



