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migrating southward, more or less sporadically, as far as Anticosti 
Island (Aug., 1900), Vermont (West Castleton, Sept., 1877), Massa- 
chusetts (Woods Hole, Aug. 12, 1888, Sept. 10-22, 1906, Oct. 13, 
1894; Georges Bank, fall; Monomoy Island, Sept. 29, 1885), Con- 
necticut (Wallingford, Aug. 30, 1883), New York (Oyster Bay South, 
date unrecorded; Gowanus Bay, Oct., 1842), New Jersey (80 miles 
off Barnegat, May 6, 1894, 2 specimens), Florida (Cape Canaveral), 
Indiana (Millers, Sept. 21, 1915), Illinois (Cairo, Nov., 1876), Iowa 
(Lone Tree, Johnson County, June 15, 1907), California (near Mon- 
terey, Aug. 23, 1894; Pacific Beach, Sept. 19, 1904), Japan, Straits 
of Gibraltar, and Italy. 
Larus parasiticus (not of Linnzeus, 1758) Purprs, Voy. North Pole, 1774, 187.— 
BoppaEnrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl., 1783, 58 (Pl. Enl., pl. 991; not of p. 47, based on 
Pl. Enl., pl. 762).—Bxcusrermn, Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1791, 821.—Scorzssy, 
Arctic Reg., i, 1820, 534.Mryer -(B.), Ann. Wetterau. Ges.,i, 1809, 276 
(Kostheim-am-Main, Germany).—MsIsnErR and Scuinz, Vog. Schweiz, 1815, 
278.—ManBy, Voy. Greenl., 1822, 89, and pl. 
Catharacta parasitica Fasricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, 103. 
Cataracta parasitica Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1800, 160. 
Lestris parasiticus (not Larus parasiticus Linneeus) Temmincx, Man. d’Orn., 
1815, 512; 2d ed., ii, 1820, 796.—Lsson, Man. d’Orn., 11,1828, 288.—A uDUBON 
Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 470; Synopsis, 1839, 333; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 
192, pl. 452. 
Lf{estris] parasiticus Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 283. 
Lestris parasitica InziceRr, Prodr. Orn., 1811, 273.—Nizsson, Fauna Suecica, 
1817, 181, 184, part.—Sazine (E.), Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, pt. ii, 1819, 551;in 
Parry’s lst Voy., App., 1821, p. ecvi (Polar Sea to Melville Island).—Ricu- 
ARDSON (J.), Parry’s 2d Voy., App. 1825, 361 (n. part Southampton Land).— 
Ross (J. C.), Parry’s 8rd Voy., App., 1826, 105; Parry’s 4th Voy., App., 1828, 
196 (Walden Island; not north of 32°).—Werrner, Atlas, Palmipédes, 1828, 
pl. 34.Swatnson and RicHarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 430.— 
Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, 189 (Orkney Islands); Birds Europe, v, 
1837, pl. 442 and text.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 
1834, 317.—AvupuzBon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iii, 1835, pl. 267 Eyton, Cat. 
Brit. Birds, 1836, 52.—Bonarartz, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 63.—Tzm- 
MINCK, Man.d’Orn., 2d ed., pt. 4, 1840, 493, 501.—Mzyrr, (H. L.), Illustr. Brit. 
Birds, iv, 1843, pl.—; vii, 1857, 174, pl. 314.—Giraup, Birds, Long Is., 1844, 
364.—MaceiLuivray, Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 503.—Apams, Ibis., 1878, 441 
(St. Michaels, Alaska).—Ropp, Birds Cornwall, 1880, 174.—BLAKIsToN and 
Prrer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, x, 1882, 105. 
Stercorarius parasiticus Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 78; ed. 1841, 98.—Wricut 
(E. P.), Ibis, 1866, 218 (Prince Patrick Land).—Saunprrs, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. Lond., 1876, 330 (monogr.); ed. Yarrell’s Brit. Birds, iii, 1884, 681; Man. 
Brit. Birds, 1889, 677; Ibis, 1892, 183 (British coasts, numerous); Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 334.—Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 1876, 481, pl. 612, 
fig. 1.—Szrsonm and Harviz-Brown, Ibis, 1876, 454 (lower Petchora, 
Russia; habits).—Conuert, Nyt Mag. Naturv., 1877, 206 (n. Norway); Bd. 
xxxv, 1894, 302 (Norway).—Ripeway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 699.— 
Fritpen, in Markham’s Polar Reconn., 1881, 335 (Novaya Zemlya, breeding); 
Trans. Norwich Soc., iv, 1887, 351 (Hudson Straits).—Ciarxs, Faun. York- 
shire, Birds, 1881, 84.—Nxtson, Cruige ‘Corwin’ in 1881 (1883), 111 (habits).— 
