10 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



STERCORARIIDAE. 



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N. H. — Uncommon migrant offshore. Sept. 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant and summer visitor offshore; 

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



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

 2, 1897. 



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

 1875. 



18. 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'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 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. 



