ORDER LONGIPENNES. 33 



SUBFAMILY ALT.IN.ffi. DOVEKIES. 

 GENUS ALLE LINK. 



Atte LINK, Beschr. Nat. Samml. Univ. Rostock, I, 1806, 17. Type, 

 by monotypy, A lie nigricans LINK = Alca alle LINNAEUS. 



Alle alle (LINNJEUS). Dovekie. [34.] 



Alca alle LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 131. (Probably Scotland.) 



RANGE. Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. Breeds from 

 Kane Basin and Baffin Bay east to Franz Josef Land; winters from 

 southern Greenland south to Long Island, and casually to Delaware 

 Bay and North Carolina; accidental near Melville Island, and in 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and Bermuda. 



ORDER LONGIPENNES. LONG-WINGED 

 SWIMMERS. 



FAMILY STERCORARIIDJE. SKUAS AND JAEGERS. 



GENUS MEGALESTRIS BONAPARTE. 



Megalestris BONAPARTE, Catal. Ois. d'Eur. Parzudaki, 1856, 11. Type, 

 by monotypy, Megalestris catarrhactes BONAPARTE = Caiharacia skua 

 BRUNNICH. 



Megalestris skua (BRUNNICH). Skua. [35.] 



Catfiaracta skua BRUNNICH, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 33. (Faroe Islands and 

 Iceland.) 



RANGE. Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. Breeds on 

 Lady Franklin Island (Hudson Strait), in Iceland, and on the Faroe 

 and Shetland islands; winters on fishing banjos off Newfoundland 

 and Nova Scotia; casually south to Long Island; in Europe south 

 to Gibraltar. 



