ANNOTATED LIsT OF SPECIES aie 
“Winter. Common.’ Ipswich: ‘‘A few” in fall and winter. Nan- 
tucket: ‘‘Common.”’ Templeton: “A rare straggler from the coast, 
; 
after the prevalence of easterly storms.’ 
54. Megalestris skua (Briinn.). Skua. 
A pelagic species, casual off the coast in late summer and 
autumn. ‘There are but two records; the specimen taken over 
one hundred miles off shore was too far from land to be really 
included as a Massachusetts bird, 7 ¢. George’s [Banks], one 
was ‘captured alive by means of a hook,” and was kept alive on 
a fishing vessel. This bird was found dead on the 18th of July 
[1878] by one of Prof. Baird’s party at the Fort Wharf, Glouces- 
ter.! The specimen is now in the U. S. National Museum. Vav- 
tucket Shoals, two were seen on October 11, 1883; Polluck Rip, 
a female was taken September 10, 1884, by N.S. Goss.’ 
55. stercorarius pomarinus (Temm.). POMARINE JAEGER. 
A not uncommon spring and autumn visitant off the coast, 
occurring rarely in summer. A female was taken on the Merri- 
mack River, July 5, 1889.* 
May 23; July 5 to [October 30]. , 
Bristol County: “‘ Abundant in Buzzards Bay fall of 1886.” 
56. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieill. LONG-TAILED JAEGER. 
A rare migrant off the coast in spring and autumn, rare in 
winter. 
Nantucket : “ Occasional.” 
57. Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.). PARASITIC JAEGER. 
A fairly common visitant to the coast in spring, summer and 
autumn. Rare in winter. 
May 31 to (July 15) ; July to September 25; January and 
February. 
Bristol County : ‘“‘ Abundant in Buzzards Bay fall of 1886.’ Cohasset : 
“Not uncommon in fall—rare in winter.’”’ Essex County: ‘Winter. 
Rare.” 
1 Brewer ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. III, No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 188. 
* Extract Ann. Rep. Comm. Fish and Fisheries, 1882, pp. 323, 324. 
3Goss; Auk, Vol. I, No. 4, Oct., 1884, p. 395. 
‘Editor; O.& O., Vol. XIV, No. 11, Nov., 1889, p. 176. 
