288 OAVi^. 



Figures: Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. pi. 175 (summer plumage) ; 

 Nelson, Cruise of the ' Corvin/ Birds, pi. 1 (summer plumage). 



Head of Frutercula pusilla. Natural size. 



Tlie Least Puffin was not recorded from Japan until it was deseribcd 

 from two examples, one of whieh, in the Tokio Museum, was procured 

 on the Kaga coast of Hondo, and the other, in the Hakodadi Museum, 

 was caught in Hakodadi Bay in Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 210). On the 2nd of March, 1883, several examples were 

 collected in Hakodadi Bay by jSIr. Hcnson, two of which were sent 

 me by Captain Blakiston (Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 31), and two more 

 came into my possession afterwards. 



The Least Puffin breeds in great abundance on the islands in the 

 North Pacific Ocean as far north as Bering Straits, and as far south 

 as the Aleutian Islands. 



282. STERCORARIUS RICHARDSONI. 

 (IIICHARDSON^S SKUA.) 



Li'stris richardsoni, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. p. 433 (1831). 



Richardson's Skua is a sooty-brown bird, witli or without a great 

 deal of white on the underparts. The narrow, pointed central tail- 

 feathers are 3 or 4 inches longer than the outer ones. The shafts of 

 most of the primaries are Mhite. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Great Britain, v. pi. 80; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, viii. pi. Gil. 



