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KKV TO TIIIC W.\'II:R lURDS OF I'LOKIOA. 



Accidental on the Florida coast in winter. It ran^'es from the far North 

 southward to South America and South Africa. It breeds in hi<(h northern 

 latitudes. The eggs are oli\e brown, blc^tched with chocolate brown. The 

 nest is a little grass in a sliglit depression in the ground. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (atUilt). 



Stercorarius parasiticus (immature). 



STERCORARIUS LONQICAUDUS I'icill. 

 Long=tailed Jaeger. 



Length from base of the hook on end of upper mandible (unguis) to frontal feathers less 

 than from unguis to tip of upper mandible ; tarsus blue in freshly killed specimens, feet 

 black. 



Adult : Above slaty gray : top and sides of the head dull black ; sides of the head and neck 

 pale yelldw ; under parts dark slate color : chest and upper belly whitish. 



Iiiiiiiatiire : Re.sembles the preceding species in color: hut may be distinguished by com- 

 paring the measurements of the bill and tail. 



Length, 19 to 23; Wing. 12.50: Tail (adult). 12.50 (immature). 6 : Tarsus, 1.65: Bill. i.io. 



It breeds in high northern latitudes, ranging southward in winter to the 

 West Indies and Gulf of Me.xico. The eggs are three in niuuber, pale 

 olive brown blotched with chocolate brown. It nests on the ground. 



A bird of this species was found dead on the beach, a short distance 

 north of Cape Canaveral. I liave never seen it alive in Florida. 



