6 BULLETIN 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the banks of Nova Scotia and near Georges Banks, off the Massa- 
chusetts coast. 
During migration it has occurred in Greenland at Disco Island, 
(Figgins), Unamak (Schalow), and Ivigtut (Helms), and has been 
noted in the eastern part of Hudson Strait (Low); near Lady 
Franklin Island, north of Hudson Strait, in September (Kumlien) ; a 
few on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, in fall (Collins) ; one, at 
Belle Isle Strait, Labrador, June 22, 1882 (Turner); Ipswich Bay, 
Fig. 1.— Skua ( Mcgalestris skua). 
Mass., September 17, 1878 (Allen); a pair near Nantucket Island, 
October 17, 1883 (Collins); Woods Hole, Mass., September 19, 1889, 
August 30, 1889 (Edwards); Georges Banks, Mass., July, 1878 (Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway); one, Niagara River, N. Y., spring of 1886 
(Bergtold); one, Montauk, N. Y., August 10, 1896 (Scott); one, near 
Amagansett, Long Island, N. Y., winter of 1885-86 (Dutcher); the 
species has wandered twice to the Pacific coast, since a specimen was 
taken by Colonel Pike off Monterey, Cal., many years ago, and one 
was taken in Monterey Bay, Cal., August 7, 1907 (Beck). 
