34 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus STERCORARIUS Brisson. 



Stercwarius Bbisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 149. Type, by tautonymy, [Ster- 

 corariits] stercorariits Brisson = Larus parasiticus Linn^us. 



Stercor&rius pomarinus (Temminck). Pomarine Jaeger. [36.] 



Lestris pomarinus Temminck, Manuel d'Orn., 1815, 514. (Arctic regions; 

 coasts of Holland and France.) 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 

 Melville Island and central Greenland south to northern Alaska, 

 northern Mackenzie, Melville Peninsula, and Baffin Land, and also 

 on Arctic islands of Eastern Hemisphere; winters off Atlantic coast, 

 south to New Jersey; common fall migrant on coast of California; 

 winters south to the Galapagos, Peru, Africa, and Australia; accidental 

 in Nebraska. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.<eus). Parasitic Jaeger. [37.] 



Larus parasiticus LiNN.aBus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. (Coast 

 of Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from 

 northwestern Alaska, Melville Island, and northern Greenland south 

 to Aleutian Islands, central Mackenzie (Great Slave Lake), and cen- 

 tral Keewatin, and on Arctic islands of Siberia and of northern 

 Europe south to Scotland; winters from the Aleutian Islands south to 

 California, from New England coast south to Brazil, in Australia, 

 and from coast of Europe south to Cape of Good Hope; casual in 

 interior to the Great Lakes, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. 



Stercorarius longicatidus Vieillot. Long-tailed Jaeger. [38.] 



Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXII, 

 1819, 157. (Northern regions.) 



Range. — Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. Breeds on 

 Arctic islands of Europe and Asia, and coasts of Kotzebue and Norton 

 sounds, northern Mackenzie, and northern Hudson Bay to northern 

 Greenland; winters south to Gibraltar and Japan; not rare in migra- 



