12 BULLETIN 292, IT. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
The last were noted at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 27, 1882 
(Murdoch), and September 9, 1897 (Stone); Port Providence, Plover 
Bay, Siberia, September 12, 1880 (Bean); St. Michael, Alaska, 
September 16, 1899 (Bishop); St. George Island, Alaska, October 18, 
1913(Hanna); Wellington Channel, latitude 75°, September 2, 1852 
(McCormick); Fort Simpson, Mackenzie, October 16, 1860 (Ross); 
North Hamlin, N. Y., November 16, 1894 (Guelf); Comox, British 
Columbia, November 8, 1903 (Brooks); Bellingham Bay, Wash., 
October 28, 1893 (Edson) ; Hyperion, Los Angeles County, Cal., Decem- 
ber 18,' 1911 (Willett); San Diego, Cal., December 16, 1884 (Hen- 
shaw) ; Charleston, S. C, occasional in November and never seen later 
(Wayne) 
LONG-TAILED JAEGER. Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. 
Range. — Arctic regions of both hemispheres; south in winter to 
Gibraltar and Japan. 
Breeding range. — Sine© the long-tailed jaeger seems to be confined 
in winter to the Eastern Hemisphere and finds its principal summer 
home on the Arctic islands north of Europe and Asia, it is natural 
that it should be most common during the latter season in those parts 
of the Western Hemisphere which are nearest these main breeding 
grounds. It is an abundant breeder in northern Greenland on both 
coasts south to Scoresby Sound on the east and Disco Bay on the 
west; it is equally common on the neighboring Ellesmere Island from 
Cape Union on the north (Feilden) to King Oscar Land on the south- 
west (Sverdrup). On the western side of North America it ranges 
east from Siberia, breeding in Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, south to 
St. Michael (Nelson) and east along the Arctic coast to Franklin Bay 
(MacFarlane) . It nested inland on the tundra near Fort Anderson, 
and eggs were sent to the United States National Museum, claimed to 
have been taken as far inland as La Pierre House, Yukon, and are in 
the Thayer Museum from the Caribou Hills, Mackenzie. Between 
these two breeding areas in North America lies a district stretching 
across 35 degrees of longitude, in which the species is not yet known to 
occur during summer. 
Winter range. — It seems probable that the long-tailed jaeger does 
not regularly winter anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. There 
are only two records during the winter season (from November to 
May) , and if not mistakes in identification they must represent acci- 
dental occurrences. The winter home is in the Eastern Hemisphere, 
south to Gibraltar on the Atlantic side and to Japan on the Pacific. 
Spring migration. — The first birds of this species arrived at St. 
Michael, Alaska, May 16, 1881 (Nelson); Nulato, Alaska, May 15, 
1868 (specimen in U. S. National Museum) ; Kowak River, Alaska, 
May 22, 1899 (Grinnell); and at Point Barrow, Alaska, May 30, 1883 
