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Ipswich Bay, Sept. 17, 1878; Woods Hole, Sept. 19, 1889) and New 

 York (Suffolk Count}^, Long Island, March 17, 1886; Amagansett, 

 Long Island, whiter of 1885-86; Niagara River, spring of 1SS6; 

 Montauk, Aug. 10, 1896), and in Europe southward to England 

 (Devonshire), southwestern France, Straits of Gibraltar, Madeira 

 Islands (Nov.), and Poland. (Recorded from Aleutian Islands and 

 from Monterey Bay, California, but probably erroneously, at least 

 as far as correct identification is concerned, tlie Monterey specimens, 

 at least, being more likely M. cMlensis.) 



[Catharacta] skua Brunnich, Orn. Bor., 1764, 33 (Faroe Islands; Iceland). 



Catarracta skua Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1800, 161. — Bonaparte, Cat. Metli. 

 Ucc. Eur., 1842, 79.— Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 78.— Reichenbach, 

 Av. Syst. Nat., Longipennes, 1852, pp. 4, 5. — Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 293. 



Catarada skua Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838. 63. 



Catarractes skua Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. , ii, 1826, 309. 



Cataractes skua Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 215.— Macgil- 

 LiVRAY, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 255.— Bruch, Journ. fur Orn., 1853, 108. 



Catharacta skua skua Mathews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 5, Jan. 31, 1913, 496 (North 

 Atlantic Ocean; Hudson Straits). 



Lestris skua Boie, in Wiedemann's Zool. Mag., i, 1819, 132.— Breh.m, Isis, 1830, 

 992; Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 716; Vogelf., 1855, 336. 



Buphagus skua Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 125 (nionogr.); Proc. 

 Essex Inst., v, 1868, 305 (New England coast?).— Kumlien, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mu3., no. 15, 1879, 94 (lat. 41° N., long. 68° W.; Lady Franklin Island, 

 Sept., with young). 



[Buphagus skua] a. skua Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 604 (monogr.). 



[Stercorariu^] skua Bonaparte, Naumannia, 1854, 210. — Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 309. 



Stercorarius skua Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 539; 2d ed., 1882, no. 764. — 

 Collins, Auk, i, 1884, 238 (Grand Banks, etc.; habits; Nantucket Sound, 

 Massachusetts, 2 specs., Oct. 17, 1883). — Hartert, Katal. Vogelsamml. 

 Senckenb., 1891, 243. 



S[tercoranus] skua Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 734. 



Megalestris skua Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, sig. 13, Aug. 24, 1880, 208 

 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 696); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 696.— Collins, 

 Rep. Com. Fish and Fisheries for 1882 (18S4), 323 (Grand Banks, etc., New- 

 foundland; habits). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., 

 ii, 1884, 328.— Goss, Auk, i, 1884, 395 (off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1 spec, 

 Sept. 10, 1884).— Turner, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 252 (Straits of 

 Belle Isle, 1 spec, June 22). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 35; 3d ed., 1910, p. 33. — Dutcher, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 432 (Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York, 1 spec, March 17, 1886); 

 iv, 1887, 158 (Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, Oct. 11, 1883). — Hagerup, 

 Birds Greenland, 1891, 45.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xii, 1899, 224 

 (s. side Olrik Bay and off Disko Island, Greenland). — Schalow, Vogel der 

 Arktis, 1904, 131 (synonymy, range, etc). — (?)Beck, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 

 4th ser., iii, 1910, 61 (Monterey Bay, California, 1 spec, Aug. 7, 1907).^ — 

 Cooke, Bull. 292, U. S. Dopt. Agric (Biol. Surv.), 1915, 5, fig. 1 (range and 

 migrations). — Grinnell, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 20 (coast Cali- 

 fornia; rare visitant." 



a May be J/, ckilensis. There is no authentic record for M. skua from any part of 

 the Pacific Ocean. 



