ORDER LONGIPENNES. 3055 
SuspraMity ALLINAS. Dovekies. 
GeENus ALLE LInK. 
Alle Link, Beschr. Nat. Samml. Univ. Rostock, I, 1806, 17. Type, 
by monotypy, Alle nigricans Link = Alca alle LINN&us. 
Alle Alle (Linnus). Dovekie. [34.] 
Alca alle Linnxwus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 131. (Probably Scotland.) 
RanGE.— Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. Breeds from 
Kane Basin and Baffin Bay east to Franz Josef Land; winters from 
southern Greenland south to Long Island, and casually to Delaware 
Bay and North Carolina; accidental near Melville Island, and in 
Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and Bermuda. — 
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OrpER LONGIPENNES. LONG-WINGED 
SWIMMERS. 
FamMILy STERCORARIIDA. SkUAS AND JAEGERS. 
GENUS MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 
Megalestris BONAPARTE, Catal. Ois. d’Eur. Parzudaki, 1856, 11. Type, 
by monotypy, Megalestris catarrhactes BONAPARTE = Catharacta skua 
BRUNNICH. 
Megaléstris skia (BRUNNICH). Skua. [35.] 
Catharacta skua BRUNNICH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 33. (Faroe Islands and 
Iceland.) 
RaNnGE.— Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. Breeds on 
Lady Franklin Island (Hudson Strait), in Iceland, and on the Faroe 
and Shetland islands; winters on fishing banks off Newfoundland 
and Nova Scotia; casually south to Long Island; in Europe south 
to Gibraltar. 
