NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 7 
POMARINE JAEGER. Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). 
Range. — Both hemispheres, from the Arctic Islands south to 
Australia, southern Africa, and Peru. 
Breeding range. — The rarest of the three jaegers is probably the 
pomarine jaeger, which breeds in North America from North Somerset 
Island at Fury Point (Ross) and Upernivik on the west coast of 
Greenland, latitude 73° (Hagerup), south to the northern coast 
Fig. 2.— Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus). 
of Alaska, at Cape Lisburne (eggs in National Museum), and Point 
Barrow (Stone) ; to the coast of Mackenzie at the mouth of the An- 
derson River (MacFarlane), Cape Bathurst (Thayer), and Franklin 
Bay (MacFarlane); Igloolik (Richardson), Exeter Sound on Baffin 
Land (Kumlien), and on the west coast of Greenland, latitude 64° 
(Hagerup). It has been noted north to Melville Island (Sabine), 
It also breeds in the Arctic regions of 
and probably breeds there. 
