34 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GENus STERCORARIUS Brisson. 
Stercorarius Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 149. Type, by tautonymy, [Ster- 
corarius] stercorarius Brisson = Larus parasiticus LINN&US. 
Stercorérius pomarinus (TEMMINCK). Pomarine Jaeger. [36.] 
Lestris pomarinus TEMMINCK, Manuel d’Orn., 1815, 514. (Arctic regions; 
coasts of Holland and France.) 
Rance.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 
Melville Island and central Greenland south to northern Alaska, 
northern Mackenzie, Melville Peninsula, and Baffin Land, and also 
on Arctic islands of Eastern Hemisphere; winters off Atlantic coast, 
south to New Jersey; common fall migrant on coast of California; 
winters south to the Galapagos, Peru, Africa, and Australia; accidental 
in Nebraska. 
Stercorarius parasiticus (LINN£Us). Parasitic Jaeger. [37.] 
Larus parasiticus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. (Coast 
of Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 
northwestern Alaska, Melville Island, and northern Greenland south 
to Aleutian Islands, central Mackenzie (Great Slave Lake), and cen- 
tral Keewatin, and on Arctic islands of Siberia and of northern 
Europe south to Scotland; winters from the Aleutian Islands south to 
California, from New England coast south to Brazil, in Australia, 
and from coast of Europe south to Cape of Good Hope; casual in 
interior to the Great Lakes, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. 
Stercorarius longicaidus VIEILLOT. Long-tailed Jaeger. [38.] 
Stercorarius longicaudus Vir1tuoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., XXXII, 
1819, 157. (Northern regions.) 
Rance.— Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. Breeds on 
Arctic islands of Europe and Asia, and coasts of Kotzebue and Norton 
sounds, northern Mackenzie, and northern Hudson Bay to northern 
Greenland; winters south to Gibraltar and Japan; not rare in migra- 
