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BUFFON’S SKUA. 
ARCTIC JAGER. 
Lestris Buffonii, 
a a 
11 parasiticus, 
“ crepidatus, (young) 
Cataractes parasiticus, 
Stercorarius Cepphus, 
“ longicaudus, 
Larus parasiticus, 
“ crepidatus , (young) 
Cataractes Cepphus, 
Lestris —A pirate vessel. 
BOATSWAIN. 
Boie. Meyer. 
Buonaparte. 
Jenyns. Eyton. Gould. 
Temminck. 
Fleming. 
Shaw. 
Brisson. 
LlNNiEUS. 
Gmelin. Latham. 
Brunnich. Kay. 
Buffonii —Of Buffon. 
This species has been named after M. Buffon, the 
celebrated French naturalist. 
Many of these birds are seen in North America, about 
Baffin’s Bay, Melville Peninsula, and the North Georgian 
Islands. 
Specimens have been procured in different parts of France 
and Belgium, and they occur also in Norway, Iceland, and 
Spitzbergen. 
In Yorkshire an individual of this kind was taken near 
Bedcar, on the 20th. of July, 1849; another, I believe, near 
Bridlington Quay, and another at Flamborough. One in 
Devonshire, near Plymouth, as John Gatcombe, Esq. has 
written me word. Another was shot by George Dawson 
Kowley, Esq., at Wintringham, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, 
on the 20th. of October, 1848; it was sitting in an arable 
field, and was very tame. The remains of a dead bird, 
apparently its mate, were also found not far off. In Norfolk, 
a specimen was picked up dead at Hockham, in September, 
1847. In Durham, an adult bird was found near Whitburn, 
