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migrating southward, more or less sporadically, as far as Anticosti 

 Island (Aug., 1900), Vermont (West Castleton, Sept., 1877), Massa- 

 chusetts (Woods Hole, Aug. 12, 1888, Sept. 10-22, 1906, Oct. 13, 

 1894; Georges Bank, fall; Monomoy Island, Sept. 29, 1885), Con- 

 necticut (Wallingford, Aug. 30, 1883), New York (Oyster Bay South, 

 date unrecorded; Gowanus Bay, Oct., 1842), New Jersey (80 miles 

 off Barnegat, May 6, 1894, 2 specimens), Florida (Cape Canaveral), 

 Indiana (Millers, Sept. 21, 1915), Illinois (Cairo, Nov., 1876), Iowa 

 (Lone Tree, Johnson County, June 15, 1907), California (near Mon- 

 terey, Aug. 23, 1894; Pacific Beach, Sept. 19, 1904), Japan, Straits 

 of Gibraltar, and Italy. 



Larus parasiticus (not of Linnseus, 1758) Phipps, Voy. North Pole, 1774, 187. — 

 BoDDAERT, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 58 (PI. Enl., pi. 991; not of p. 47, based on 

 PL Enl.. pi. 762).— Bechstein. Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1791, 821.— Scoresbt, 

 Arctic Reg., i, 1820, 534.— Meyer (B.), Ann. Wetterau. Ges., i, 1809, 276 

 (Kostheim-am-Main, Germany). — Meisner and Schinz, Vog. Schweiz, 1815, 

 278.— Manby, Voy. Greenl., 1822, 89, and pi. 



Catharacta parasitica Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, 103. 



Cataracta parasitica Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1800, 160. 



Lestris parasiticus (not Larus parasiticus Linnseus) Temminck, Man. d'Orn.. 

 1815,512;2ded.,ii, 1820,796.— Lesson, Man. d'Orn.,ii,1828, 288.— Audubon 

 Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 470; Synopsis, 1839, 333; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 

 192, pi. 452. 



L[€Stris] parasiticus Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 283. 



Lestris paralitica Illiger, Prodr. Orn., 1811, 273. — Nilsson, Fauna Suecica, 

 1817, 181, 184, part.— Sabine (E.), Trans. Linn. Soc, xii, pt. ii, 1819, 551; in 

 Parry's 1st Voy., App., 1821, p. ccvi (Polar Sea to Melville Island). — Rich- 

 ardson (J.), Parry's 2d Voy., App. 1825, 361 (n. part Southampton Land). — 

 Ross (J. C), Parry's 3rd Voy., App., 1826, 105; Parry's 4th Voy., App., 1828, 

 196 (Walden Island; not north of 32°).— Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, 1828, 

 pi. 34. — SwAiNSON and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 430. — 

 Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, 189 (Orkney Islands); Bii-ds Europe, v, 

 1837, pi. 442 and text. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 

 1834, 317.— Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iii, 1835, pi. 267.— Eyton, Cat, 

 Brit. Birds, 1836, 52.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 63.— Tem- 

 minck, Man. d'Orn., 2d ed., pt. 4, 1840, 493, 501.— Meyer, (H. L.), Illustr. Brit. 

 Birds, iv, 1843, pi.—; vii, 1857, 174, pi. 314.— Giraud, Birds, Long Is., 1844, 

 364.— Macgillivray, Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 503.— Adams, Ibis., 1878, 441 

 (St. Michaels, Alaska).— Rood, Birds Cornwall, 1880, 174.— Blakiston and 

 Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 105. 



Stercorarius parasiticus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 78; ed. 1841, 98. — ^Wright 

 (E. P.), Ibis, 1866, 218 (Prince Patrick Land).— Saunders, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1876, 330 (monogr.); ed. Yarrell's Brit. Birds, iii, 1884, 681; Man. 

 Brit. Birds, 1889, 677; Ibis, 1892, 183 (British coasts, numerous); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XXV, 1896, 334.— Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 1876, 481, pi. 612, 

 fig. 1. — Seebohm and Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1876, 454 (lower Petchora, 

 Russia; habits).— Collett, Nyt Mag. Naturv., 1877, 206 (n. Norway); Bd. 

 XXXV, 1894, 302 (Norway).— Ridoway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 699.— 

 Feilden, in Markham's Polar Reconn., 1881, 335 (Novaya Zemlya, breeding); 

 Trans. Norwich Soc, iv, 1887, 351 (Hudson Straits). — Clarke, Faun. York- 

 shire, Birds, 1881, 84.— Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin' in 1881 (1883), 111 (habits).— 



