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BUFFON'S SKUA. 



ARCTIC JAGEE. 



BOATSWAIN. 



Lestris Buffonii. 



u u 



" parasiticus, 

 11 crepidatus, (young) 

 Cataractes parasiticus, 

 Stercorarius Cepplms, 



longicauduSj 

 Larus parasiticus, 



" crepidatus, (young) 

 Cataractes Cepphus, 



BOIE. MEYER. 



BUONAPARTE. 



JENYNS. EYTON. GOULD. 



TEMMINCK. 



FLEMING. 



SHAW. 



BRISSON. 



LINN^TJS. 



G-MELIN. LATHAM. 



BB.UNNICH. KAY. 



Lestris A pirate vessel. 



Buffonii Of Buff on. 



THIS species has been named after M. Buffon, the 

 celebrated French naturalist. 



Many of these birds are seen in North America, about 

 Baffin's Bay, Melville Peninsula, and the North Georgian 

 Islands. 



Specimens have been procured in different parts of France 

 and Belgium, and they occur also in Norway, Iceland, and 

 Spitzbergen. 



In Yorkshire an individual of this kind was taken near 

 Eedcar, on the 20th. of July, 1849; another, I believe, near 

 Bridlington Quay, and another at Flamborough. One in 

 Devonshire, near Plymouth, as John Gatcombe, Esq. has 

 written me word. Another was shot by George Dawson 

 Rowley, Esq., at Wintringham, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, 

 on the 20th. of October, 1848; it was sitting in an arable 

 field, and was very tame. The remains of a dead bird, 

 apparently its mate, were also found not far off. In Norfolk, 

 a specimen was picked up dead at Hockham, in September, 

 1847. In Durham, an adult bird was found near Whitburn, 



