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south along the coasts of Europe and Africa to the Cape of Good 
Hope, the Persian Gulf, Australia, and New Zealand. 
Migration range. — In fall this jaBger appears not rarely on both 
coasts of the United States from Maine to Florida and from Wash- 
ington to southern California. It also occurs along the coast of 
British Columbia and the Maritime Provinces. It has been noted 
not rarely on the Great Lakes and several times as a wanderer in 
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Almost without 
© BREEDING 
O OCCURRENCE IN SUMMER 
Fig. 3.— Parasitic jseger (Stercorarius parasiticus). 
exception all these records are in fall. There are hardly half a dozen 
spring records for both coasts, indicating that these birds are strag- 
glers from the regular migration routes. Those seen October 26-28, 
1912, off the coast of southern Brazil (Murphy) were undoubtedly 
migrants on their way to a more eastern and southern winter home. 
Spring migration. — As just remarked, records in spring are not 
common south of the breeding range. The parasitic jaager arrived 
at Bay of Mercy on Banks Land, May 31, 1852 (Armstrong), and was 
