Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and America. 
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LARID&—continued. 
America. 
River (Bernard Ross); Great Bear 
Lake and through Hudson’s Bay. It 
has twice occurred in Greenland. 
(Holbéll.) 
Stercorarwus pomatorhinus.*  Sclater. 
Labrador, south to New York in winter 
and once as far as Pennsylvania. 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Common, and breeds in Greenland. 
(Newton.) 
Stercorarius crepidatus.* Gm. 
Along the Atlantic coast of North 
America; two specimens have been 
obtained at Rio de Janeiro. Prybolov 
Islands, In Alaska, and probably at 
Callao. (Howard Saunders.) 
Breeds in Greenland. (Newton.) 
Stercorarius parasiticus.* Linn. 
Arctic Sea Coast of America, Baffin’s Bay. 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Breeds in Greenland. (Newton.) 
Mouth of the Mackenzie. (Bernard 
Ross.) 
Alaska. (Dall and Bannister.) 
Not south of lat. 40° N. (Howard 
Saunders.) 
Europe. 
found nesting West and Southward to 
Iceland the Faroes and Shetland Islands. 
From its breeding places it passes 
southward in autumn along the 
western shores of Europe as far as 
Gibraltar and Morocco. It has been 
found as a straggler in Germany. 
Stercorarius pomatorhinus.* Sclater. (Po- 
matorhine Skua.) 
Spitzbergen; Novaya Zemlya. 
Von Middendorff found it breeding on 
the barrens of Taimyr and Boganida 
in Siberia. It passes along the west 
coast of Europe occurring as a straggler 
in the irterior of the continent, and 
visits the Mediterranean as far as Sicily 
and Malta. West Coast of Africa. 
Captain Shelley found it at Fantee; 
and Anderson twice at Walwich Bay. 
Mr. Blythe records that Major Tickell 
found it at Moulmein on the coast of 
Tenasserim. One was found at Cape 
York, North Australia. (Howard 
Saunders. ) 
Stercorarius crepidatus.* Gm. (Richard- 
son’s Skua.) 
Mr. Howard Saunders says, “ Parry 
found it up to lat. 82° 2’N.; and it 
breeds throughout the Arctic and sub- 
Arctic regions as far south as the 
Islands of the North of Scotland; and 
Thompson records it as having nested 
near Achil Island on the West of 
Ireland.” Perhaps, also it breeds on 
the French coast. 
It is found high up in the Mediterranean, 
and along the West Coast of Africa to 
Walwich Bay, and as far as the Cape 
of Good Hope. Mr. Allan Hume 
observed it on the Coast of Scind, the 
Gulf of Oman, and between Guader 
and Bombay. One occurred at 
Horowhenua, New Zealand. 
It has the shafts of the primaries white 
or light coloured. 
Stercorarius parasiticus.* Linn. (Buffon’s 
Skua.) 
According to Mr. Howard Saunders it 
inhabits Novaya Zemlya, Spitzbergen, 
and south from thence through the 
whole circuit of the Arctic regions. 
Von Middendorf found it breeding on 
the Taimyr and Bogonida, Siberia. 
Wolley found it breeding on the Lapland 
fells. 
Ranges along the British coast, and 
Western Europe, south to Gibraltar 
