American Museum of Natural History. 225 



1884-85. The specimen was not preserved, and the record rests 

 wholly on the testimony of an unscientific but intelligent and other- 

 wise trustworthy observer, as recorded in " The Auk " of Octo- 

 ber, 1885 (II, 388). While the identity of the species cannot 

 therefore be given with certainty, there is very little reason to 

 doubt the determination here made. 



8. Cepphus grylle. BLACK GUILLEMOT. Rather common 

 winter visitant, mostly off the coast. 



9. Cepphus mandti.' MANDT'S GUILLEMOT. Off the coast 

 in winter ; not common. 



10. TJria troile. MURRE. Rare or irregular winter visitant 

 along the coast. (See Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, 1882, 

 251.) 



11. Uria lom via. BRUNI^CH'S MURRE. Common winter 

 visitant along the coast. 



12. Alca torda. RAZOR-BILLED AUK. Not uncommon in 

 winter along the coast. 



13. Alle alle. DOVEKIE. Irregular and generally rare win- 

 ter visitant along the coast ; occasionally common. Of accidental 

 occurrence in the interior, having been taken as far from the coast 

 as Springfield. 



[14.] Megalestris skua. SKUA. Rare or accidental off the 

 coast. The only record is George's Banks, July, 1878 (JBrewer, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878, 188). Mr. William Butcher in- 

 forms me that a specimen, now in his cabinet, drifted ashore dead 

 on Long Island, N. Y., in January, 1886; and it may occur 

 sparingly off the whole New England coast. 



15. Stercorarius pomarinus. POMARINE JAEGER. A not 

 common spring and autumn visitant along the coast. 



16. Stercorarius parasiticus. PARASITIC JAEGER. A regular 

 spring and fall migrant along the coast. 



17. Stercorarius longicaudus. LONG-TAILED JAEGER. 

 Rare in spring and fall along the coast. 



The tkree Jaegers have usually been regarded as winter visitors, 

 but fishermen and gunners along the coast say that none of these 

 1886.] 



