6 BULLETIN 292;, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the banks of Nova Scotia and near Georges Banks, off the Massa- 

 chusetts coast. 



During migration it has occurred in Greenland at Disco Island, 

 (Figgins), Unamak (Schalow), and Ivigtut (Helms), and has been 

 noted in the eastern part of Hudson Strait (Low); near Lady- 

 Franklin Island, north of Hudson Strait, in September (Kumlien) ; a 

 few on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, in fall (Collins); one, at 

 Belle Isle Strait, Labrador, June 22, 1882 (Turner); Ipswich Bay, 



Fig. 1.— Skua (Megalestris skua). 



Mass., September 17, 1878 (Men); a pair near Nantucket Island. 

 October 17, 1883 (Collins); Woods Hole, Mass., September 19, 1889, 

 August 30, 1889 (Edwards); Georges Banks, Mass., July, 1S7S (Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway); one, Niagara River, N. Y., spring of 1SS6 

 (Bergtold); one, Montauk, N. Y., August 10, 1896 (Scott); one, near 

 Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y., winter of 1885-86 (Dirtcher); the 

 species lias wandered twice to the Pacific coast, since a specimen was 

 taken by Colonel Pike off Monterey, Cal., many years ago, and one 

 was taken in Monterey Bay, Cal., August 7, L907 (Beck). 



