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/£fr?., No. 8, Mch. 17, PP- J 5 2 *53 England coast (Mai- 
Gulls, Petrels and Jaegers a. observed off the New b g ^ 
tha’s Vineyard to Bay of Fundy), f™ Sept. 3 . 
skua is twice recorded as ‘seen. • 4 
The Skua Gull (Stercorarius catarrades) on the Coast or assac 
J T H S -Professor Baird has recently informed me that one of hist party 
found, on U* 18lh of *. F»« — 
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Which one of this species has been taken on any part of “ An 
other than Greenland ; and as the Georges geologically and practical y 
other than Greema , be classed no t only as of 
belong to our coast Enrrland and Massachusetts.- „ 
North America proper, but also , iN ^ w g Q 3,Oct., 1878, p. / f 9 
T. M. Brewer, Boston, Mass. ’ 
, . . , a _ Tn . The Auk,’Vol. HI, No. 4. Oct., 1886, p- 43 2 . 1 
Megalestris skua. I occurrence of this species in 
recorded what I supposed to be the t NantU cket Shoals, 
North America. A P^."! n ^8 on^e Habits and Methods of Cap- 
Oct. it, 1883, may be o on the Fishing Banks off 
tureofVanousS^e.of^aBmd-^ ^ ^ for bait for 
the Eastern Coast of Noith Amenc , , r t t w . Collins 
i • hv New England Fishei'men, by Caj • J- 
catching r< . pnaintee xtractedfromtheAnnualReportoftheCom- 
(pp. 13 and 14, of separate, - , 2 r and 324).— William 
missioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1SS2, PP . 3 2 3 3 41 
Dutcher, New York City. Q; -, //.• - 
i.uk, 4, April 188 ;. P. JO i , 
