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Stercorarius longlcandns. 



THE ABCnC JAEOEB ; LOHO-TAILKD JASOEB. 



Stercorarius longicandus, ViKlLL. Nouv. Diet. XXXII. 1819, 157. — Stejnegeh, Proc. V. S. Nat. 



Mas. Vol. 5, pp. 40-42. 

 Stcrcorariiia lomjiaiudatus, Db Sely.s, Fauno Belg, 1842, 15(5. 

 Lfslri.i iMirnsiliai, Illio. I'roilr. 1811, 273. — I.Kss. Muii. II. 1828, 288 (nee LlNN.). — S\v. & Rich, 



F. B. A. II. 1831, 430. — Nrrr. Man. II. 1834, 317. 

 Lcalris iMirasiliciis, Tf.mm. Man. Oiii. td. 1815, 512. — AuD. Orii. Biog. III. 1835, 470; B. Am. Vll. 



1844, 192, pi. 452 ; Syiiop. 1839, 333. 

 Slocorariits imrasilicns, Sau.sdeu.s, P. Z. .S. 1876, 330. — Rinriw. Notn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 699. 

 Leslris crcpidaUi, BiiKiiM k Sciiill. Bcitr. z. Viig. III. 1822, 801 (not of Banks, 1713). 

 LeslrU linffom, Bdie, Meyer's Tasch. III. 1822, 212.— De Kay, N. Y. ZqoI. II. 1844, 315, pi. 133, 



fig. 291 . 

 SIcrconifius Buffoni, Coves, Pr. Phil. Ae. 1863, 136 ; Key, 1872, 309 ; Check List, 1873, 542 ; ed. 2, 



1882, no. 767 ; B. N. W. 1874, 615. 

 Stcrcorarma ccpphiis, Steph. Shaw's Zool. XIII. 1826, 211, pi. 23. — Lawr. Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 



840. — Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1359, no. 6.55. 

 Leslris microrhynchus, Br.EiiM, Handb. Vbg. Deutschl. 1831, 725. 

 L(stris Lcssoni, Degl. M«m. Ac. K. Lille, 1838, 108. 

 Leslris brachyrhynchus, BiiEH.M, Vogelf. 1855, 337. 



Leslris Htirdyi, Bonap. Tabl. d. Longijienn. Compt. Kend. 1856, 770 ; Consp. II. 1857, 210. 

 Lislris Brissoni, "BoiE," Degl. & Gehbe, Orn. Eur. II. 1867, 400. 



IIab. Northern part of northern hemisphere, breeding in Arctic districts, and migrating south 

 in winter to the Northern United States. 



Sp. Chak. Adult, liyht phase : Entire pileuni and upper part of nape, including lores, malnr 

 ic^'ion, and orbital region, sooty black ; rest of the head and neck, including lower portion of the 

 naiK', straw-yellow, paler on the chin and throat. Remaining upper parts rather dark brownish 

 cinereous or slate-color (more ashy 0)i the back, where lighter anteriorly), the remiges and rec- 



trices darker, especially toward ends, where nearly dusky blackish. Jugulum (sometimes the breast 

 alsii, or, rarely, even the aljdomen) white, shading gradually into grayish, the entire crissum, flanks, 

 siilts, and usually the abdomen being uniform deep ash-gray, becoming gradually lighter ante- 

 riorly. " Bill grayish black, the upper part bluish ; iris brown ; feet black, but with the greater 

 part of the tarsus yellow " * (Audubon). 



Total length, about 23.00 inches ; extent, 45.00 ; wing, 11.55-12.85 ( ;ige, 12.25) ; central 



' /)( life, the color of the tarsi is light grayish blue, which in dried skins sometimes changes to yellow. 



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