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XVII. ALLE Linx. 1806. 
34. Dovekie. Little Auk. 
Alle alle (LINN.) STEIJN. 1885. 
Winter resident at Grand Manan, N.B. (Chamberlain.) For- 
merly common but now rare along Nova Scotia. (Dowmns.) A 
very common periodical migrant in October along the New- 
foundland coast. (Reeks.) Common in Hudson Strait ; occurs 
plentifully along the eastern coast of Labrador. (Packard.) Said 
to breed no further south in Greenland than lat. 68° N., common in 
Baffin Bay but rare in the PolarSea. (Arct. Man.) Common on 
the coast of Labrador off Resolution Island, Grinnell Bay and 
Frobisher Straits, but did not see any in Cumberland Gulf; they 
are abundant off Exeter Sound and to the northward on the west 
coast of Baffin Bay. (Kwmelin.) Godbout, River St. Lawrence, 
Quebec. (Dionne.) 
BREEDING Nores.—I have a number of eggs of this bird from 
Iceland. Dr. Shufeldt has stated in his Comparative Orders of 
North American Birds that this bird lays two eggs, but my col- 
lector in Iceland has never found more than one egg to a clutch, 
and has been collecting for fifteen years. Most British Ornitho- 
logical writers state this bird only lays one egg. It deposits its 
single pale greenish-blue egg in crevices of the sea-cliffs. Breeds 
in Greenland on Smith Sound. (azne.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One male from the Atlantic coast, purchased with the Holman 
collection. One egg taken on Disco Island, coast of Greenland, 
in 1894, received from Mr. Raine. 
ORDER. LONGIPENNES. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS. 
Famity IV. STERCORARIIDA®  Sxuas ann JAEGERS. 
XVII]. MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 1856. 
35. The Common Skua. 
Megalestris skua (BRUNN RIDGW. 1880. 
Seen twice on the south coast of Greenland by Holbeell. (Avct, 
Man.) One seen sitting in the water in the Straits of Belle Isle. 
June 22nd, 1882. (Packard.) Not very common in winter and 
