ORDEE LONGIPENNES. 33 



SUBFAMILT ATiTiINJE. DOVEKIES. 



Genus ALLE Link. 



AUe Link, Beschr. Nat. Samml. Univ. Rostock, I, 1806, 17. Type, 

 by monotypy, AUe nigricans Link = Alca alle Linnaeus. 



Alle aile (LiNN.EUs). DoveMe. [34.] 



Alca alle Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 131. (Probably Scotland.) 



Range. — Coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. Breeds from 

 Kane Basin and Baffin Bay east to Franz Josef Land; winters from 

 southern Greenland south to Long Island, and casually to Delaware 

 Bay and North Carolina; accidental near Melville Island, and in 

 Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and Bermuda. 



Order LONGIPENNES. Long-winged 



Swimmers. 



Family STERCORARIID.S. Skuas and Jaegers. 



Genus MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 



Megalestris Bonapabte, Catal. Ois. d'Eur. Parzudaki, 1856, 11. Type, 

 by monotypy, Megalestris catarrhactes Bonapaktb = Catfiaracta skua 

 Bbtjnnich. 



Megalestris skua (Brunnich). Skua. [35.] 



Catharacta skua Brtjnnich, Om. Borealis, 1764, 33. (Faroe Islands and 

 Iceland.) 



Range. — Coasts and islands of the North Atlasntic. Breeds on 

 Lady Franklin Island (Hudson Strait), in Iceland, and on the Faroe 

 and Shetland islands; winters on fishing banks o£F Nevrfoundland 

 and Nova Scotia; casually south to Long Island; in Europe south 

 to Gibraltar. 



