BiEDS OF Indiana. 5€7 



keeper, whose name he does not know, at the St. Clair Flats. Evi- 

 dently both specimens are Uria lomvia. It is possible a careful 

 examination of the specimens will show that these also belong to this 

 species. 



Briianieh's Murre has, as I have been informed, been reported the 

 present winter from other interior localities. It has, I believe, how- 

 ever, never before been authentically reported far from the ocean. Mr. 

 Robert Eidgway informs me that they have this winter ranged down 

 the Atlantic coast as far as South Carolina. It would seem probable 

 that some storm had driven them fax out of their usual range. Evi- 

 dently those noted herein were carried inland and dispersed about the 

 same time, perhaps by the same storm. They were all taken within a 

 few days. Only twenty-one days elapsed from the date when the first 

 was obtained until the last was in the hands of a naturalist. This is 

 its first record from Indiana, except that reported by Mr. Warner 

 which, unfortunately, is not verified by the specimen. It will be of 

 interest to hear of other records of the occurrence of this species 

 inland. It will be noted that there is a specimen preserved in a public 

 museum in Indiana and in Michigan to verify the records from those 

 States. It is to be hoped that one of the Ohio specimens may be 

 secured for a like purpose. 



B. Order LOXGIPENNES. Long-winged Swimmers. 



IV. Family STERCORARIID^. Skuas and Jaegebs. 



a^. No white at base of the primaries; tarsus longer than middle toe with claw j 

 middle tail feathers, in adult, projecting much beyond the others. 



Stbrcokaeius. 5 

 5. Gestjs STERCORARIUS Brisson. 

 a'- Bill lAo or more; tarsus 2.00 or more. S. pomariuus (Temm.). 8- 



8. (36.) Stercorarius pomarinus (Temm.). 



Poraariue Jaeg^er. 



Adult, Light Phase. — Middle tail feathers projecting about foor 

 inches, not pointed; bill, 1.45 or more; tarsus, 2.00 or more. "Top 

 and sides of head, with upper parts, sooty slate or dusky; rest of head 

 and neck, including nape, together with lower parts, white, the ear- 

 covert region tinged with straw-yellow, and the lower tail-coverts 

 slaty. Young. — Head, neck and lower parts, dull buff, everywhere 

 barred with dusky; upper parts, brownish dusky, the feathers of back,. 



