678 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Ipswich Bay, Sept. 17, 1878; Woods Hole, Sept. 19, 1889) and New 
York (Suffolk County, Long Island, March 17, 1886; Amagansett, 
Long Island, winter of 1885-86; Niagara River, spring of 18386;. 
Montauk, Aug. 10, 1896), and in Europe southward to England 
(Devonshire), southwestern France, Straits of Gibraltar, Madeira 
Islands (Nov.), and Poland. (Recorded from Aleutian Islands and 
from Monterey Bay, California, but probably erroneously, at least 
as far as correct identification is concerned, the Monterey specimens, 
at least, being more likely I. chilensvs.) 
[Catharacta] skua Briwnicy, Orn. Bor., 1764, 33 (Faroe Islands; Iceland). 
Catarracta skua Rerzrus, Fauna Suecica, 1800, 161.—Bonararte, Cat. Meth. 
Uce. Eur., 1842, 79.—Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 78.—REICHENBACH, 
Av. Syst. Nat., Longipennes, 1852, pp. 4, 5_Breum, Naumannia, 1855, 293. 
Cataracta skua Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 63. : 
Catarractes skua Pattas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 309. 
Cataractes skua StePHENS, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 215.—Maccit- 
LivraY, Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 255.—Brucu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 108. 
Catharacta skua skua Matuews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 5, Jan. 31, 1918, 496 (North 
Atlantic’Ocean; Hudson Straits). 
Lestris skua Borg, in Wiedemann’s Zool. Mag., i, 1819, 132.—Brexm, Isis, 1830, 
992; Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 716; Vogelf., 1855, 336. 
Buphagus skua Cougs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 125 (monogr.); Proc. 
Essex Inst., v, 1868, 305 (New England coast?).—KuMuiEn, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., no. 15, 1879, 94 (lat. 41° N., long. 68° W.; Lady Franklin Island, 
Sept., with young). ; 
[Buphagus skua] a. skua Cours, Birds Northwest, 1874, 604 (monogr.). 
[Stercorarius] skua Bonaparts, Naumarsinia, 1854, 210.—Covzs, Key N. Am. 
Birds, 1872, 309. 
Stercorarius skua Couss, Check List, 1873, no. 539; 2d ed., 1882, no. 764.— 
Coutins, Auk, i, 1884, 238 (Grand Banks, etc.; habits; Nantucket Sound, 
Massachusetts, 2 specs., Oct. 17, 1883).—Harterr, Katal. Vogelsamml. 
Senckenb., 1891, 243. ; 
S[tercorarius] skua Cougs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 734. 
Megalestris skua Ripaway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., iii, sig. 13, Aug. 24, 1880, 208 
(Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 696); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 696.—CoLLINs, 
Rep. Com. Fish and Fisheries for 1882 (1884), 323 (Grand Banks, etc., New- 
foundland; habits).—Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Am., 
ii, 1884, 328.—Goss, Auk, i, 1884, 395 (off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1 spec., 
Sept. 10, 1884).—Turner, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 252 (Straits of 
Belle Isle, 1 spec., June 22).—Amerrican OrniTHotoaists’ Union, Check 
List, 1886, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 35; 3d ed., 1910, p. 33.—Dutcuer, Auk, 
iii, 1886, 432 (Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York, 1 spec., March 17, 1886); 
iv, 1887, 158 (Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, Oct. 11, 1883).—Hagervp, 
Birds Greenland, 1891, 45.—CHarman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xii, 1899, 224 
(s. side Olrik Bay and off Disko Island, Greenland).—Scuatow, Végel der 
Arktis, 1904, 131 (synonymy, range, etc.).—(?)Brcx, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., 
4th ser., iii, 1910, 61 (Monterey Bay, California, 1 spec., Aug. 7, 1907).0— 
Cooxg, Bull. 292, U. 8. Dept. Agric. (Biol. Surv.), 1915, 5, fig. 1 (range and 
migrations).—GRINNELL, Pacific Coast Avif., no. 11, 1915, 20 (coast Cali- 
fornia; rare visitant.¢ 
@ May be M. chilensis. There is no authentic record for M. skua from any part of 
the Pacific Ocean. 
