Annotated List of Species 7 I 



"Winter. Common." Ipswich: "A few'' in fall and winter. Nan- 

 tucket: "Common." Templeton : "A rare straggler from the coast, 

 after the prevalence of easterly storm.s." 



54. Megalestris skua (Briinn.). Skua. 



A pelagic species, casual off the coast in late summer and 

 autumn. There are but two records ; the specimen taken over 

 one hundred miles off shore was too far from land to be really 

 included as a Massachusetts bird, i e. George's [Banks], one 

 was "captured alive by means of a hook," and was kept alive on 

 a fishing vessel. This bird was found dead on the i8th of July 

 [1878] by one of Prof. Baird's party at the Fort Wharf, Glouces- 

 ter.^ The specimen is now in the U. S. National Museum. Nan- 

 tucket Shoals, two were seen on October 11, 1883 \ ^ Polluck Rip, 

 a female was taken September 10, 1884, by N. S. Goss.' 



55. Stercorarius pomarinus (Temm.). Pomarine Jaeger. 

 A not uncommon spring and autumn visitant off the coast, 



occurring rarely in summer. A female was taken on the Merri- 

 mack River, July 5, 1889.^ 



May 23 ; July 5 to [October 30]. 



Bristol County : "Abundant in Buzzards Bay fall of 1886." 



56. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieill. Long-tailed Jaeger. 

 A rare migrant off the coast in spring and autumn, rare in 



winter. 



Nantucket : " Occasional." 



57. Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.). Parasitic Jaeger. 

 A fairly common visitant to the coast in spring, summer and 



autumn. Rare in winter. 



May 31 to (July 15) ; July to September 25; January and 

 February. 



Bristol County : " Abundant in Buzzards Bay fall of 1886." Cohasset : 

 "Not uncommon in fall — rare in winter." Essex County: "Winter. 

 Rare." 



' Brewer ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 188. 

 'Extract Ann. Rep. Comm. Fish and Fisheries, 1882, pp. 323, 324. 

 'Goss; Auk, Vol.1, No. 4, Oct., 1884, p. 395. 

 * Editor; 0.& C, Vol. XIV, No. 11, Nov., 1889, p. 176. 



