CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 2^ 



XVII. ALLE Link. 1806. 

 54, Dovekie. Little Auk. 



Alle die (Linn.) Steijn. 1885. 



Winter resident at Grand Manan, N.B. {Chamberlain^ For- 

 merly common but now rare along Nova Scotia. (Downs) A 

 very common periodical migrant in October along the New- 

 foundland coast. (Reeks.) Common in Hudson Strait ; occurs 

 plentifully along the eastern coast of Labrador. (Packard.) Said 

 to breed no further south in Greenland than lat. 68° N., common in 

 Baffin Bay but rare in the Polar Sea. (Ara. Man.) Common on 

 the coast of Labrador off Resolution Island, Grinnell Bay and 

 Frobisher Straits, but did not see any in Cumberland Gulf ; they 

 are abundant off Exeter Sound and to the northward on the west 

 coast of Baffin Bay. (Kumelin.) Godbout, River St. Lawrence, 

 Quebec. {Dionne.') 



Breeding Notes. — I have a number of eggs of this bird from 

 Iceland. Dr. Shufeldt has stated in his Comparative Orders of 

 North American Birds that this bird lays two eggs, but my col- 

 lector in Iceland has never found more than one egg to a clutch, 

 and has been collecting for fifteen years. Most British Ornitho- 

 logical writers state this bird only lays one egg. It deposits its 

 single pale greenish-blue egg in crevices of the sea-cliffs. Breeds 

 in Greenland on Smith Sound. (Raine.) 



museum specimens. 



One male from the Atlantic coast, purchased with the Holman 

 collection. One egg taken on Disco Island, coast of Greenland, 

 in 1894, received from Mr. Raine. 



Order. LONGIPENNES. Long- winged Swimmers. 

 Family IV. STERCORARIID.SI Skuas and Jaegers. 



XVIII. MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 1856. 

 35. The Common Skua. 



Megalestris skua (Brunn Ridgw. 1880. 



Seen twice on the south coast of Greenland by Holbcell. {Arct, 

 Man.) One seen sitting in the water in the Straits of Belle Isle. 

 June 22nd, 1882. (Packard.) Not very common in winter and 



