66 JAEGERS AND SKUAS. 



coast, and more rarely through the Great Lakes, and winters from Long Island 

 southward. 



Long Island, regular from June 15 to Oct. 30. Sing Sing, A. V. 



JS'est^ on tlic ground. I'-^fJiJi^-, two to three, deep olive-drab sparingly spot- 

 ted with slate color, and light and dark raw-umber markings and black dots, 

 chiefly at the larger end, where they become confluent, 2-25 x 1-70 (Brewer). 



37. Stercorarius parasiticus {Linn.). Parasitic Jaegeb (see 

 Fig. G, a). Ad.^ lUjIit ^y/^aA't. — Back, wings, and tail slaty fuscous; top of the 

 head and lores nearly black ; sides of the head and back of the neck straw- 

 yellow, this color sometimes spreading down the sides of the neck and on 

 tlie throat; breast and belly white; sides of the breast, flanks, lower belly, 

 and crissum slaty fuscous ; tarsi and feet (in dried specimens) black ; middle 

 tail-feathers pointed and extending about 3"00 beyond the otliers. A-d.., dark 

 phase. — Entire i)lumage dark, slaty brown, darker on the top of the head; 

 under parts slightly lighter; sometimes a trace of straw-yellow on the sides 

 and back of the neck ; tarsi, feet, and tail as in the preceding, /w., light 

 phase. — Upper parts, wings, and tail fuscous; the feathers of the back, neck, 

 and liead more or less bordered, tipped, or barred with bufty ; hind-neck and 

 head sometimes bufl'y, streaked or barred with fuscous, and varying from 

 this color to plain fuscous; longer, lateral upper tail-coverts barred with 

 bufty ; tail butty, whitish at the base ; under wing-coverts barred with buff"y ; 

 under parts white, washed with butty, and irregularly barred with sooty 

 fuscous ; these bars sometimes very numerous when the under parts looked 

 as if washed with sooty fuscous ; again, they may be less numerous and con- 

 fined to the breast and sides, leaving the belly white; central tail-feathers 

 pointed, projecting more or less beyond the rest. ///«-., darlc phase. — Sooty fus- 

 cous, the feathers, particularly on the under parts, more or less marked with 

 ochraceous-buft". L., 17-00 ; W., 13-00 ; T., Ad., 8-00, Im., 6-40 ; B., 1-15. 



liemarlxs. — This species closely resembles <S'. longicandus. Adults of both 

 species, whether in the dark or light phase of plumage, may always be dis- 

 tinguished from each other by the difference in the length of their central 

 tail-feathers, in addition to the characters given in the key. Young birds 

 can not be distinguished by color, but may be identified by the ditt'erences in 

 relative proportions of the bill. 



Kange.—'-'' Northern parts of the northern hemisphere, southward in win- 

 ter to South Africa and South America" (A. O. U.). In America breeds 

 in the Barren GroiuKls and Greenland ; migrates southward through the Great 

 Lakes and along the Atlantic coasts, and winters from the Middle States 

 southward. 



Long Island, regular from June 15 to Oct. 30. 



Kcst.^ on the moors or tundras, a slight depression in the ground scantily 

 lined with grasses, etc., or on rocks by the sea. £ggs^ two to four, light olive- 

 brown, with frequently a strong greenish tinge and chocolate markings, more 

 numerous and sometimes confiuent at the larger end, 2-25 x 1-65. 



38. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieill. Long-tailed JAEOEn. 



Ad., light phast'.—WiwV, wings, and tail slaty fuscous; top of head and lores 

 nearly black ; sides of the head, back and sides of tho neck straw-yellow ; 



