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Identifier: distributionmigr292cook (find matches)
Title: Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916
Subjects: Gulls
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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a coast all winter and at theapproach of the breeding season depart southward to their summerhome. ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES. SKUA. Megalestris skua (BRtrNNiCH). The skua breeds in Iceland and on the Faroe and Shetland Islands.Though reported as breeding in North America, there seems to beno proof that it has ever nested in the Western Hemisphere, even inGreenland. The bulk of the birds winter off the coast of Europesouth to Gibraltar, but the species is not rare at this season around 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 beennoted in the eastern part of Hudson Strait (Low); near LadyFranklin Island, north of Hudson Strait, in September (Kumlien); afew on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, in fall (Collins); one, atBelle Isle Strait, Labrador, June 22, 1882 (Turner); Ipswich Bay,
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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, nearAmagansett, Long Island, N. Y., winter of 1885-86 (Dutcher); thespecies has wandered twice to the Pacific coast, since a specimen wastaken by Colonel Pike off Monterey, Cal., many years ago, and onewas taken in Monterey Bay, Cal., August 7, 1907 (Beck). NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 7 POMARINE JAEGER. Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck). Range.—Both hemispheres, from the Arctic Islands south toAustralia, southern Africa, and Peru. Breeding range.—The rarest of the three jaegers is probably thepomarine jaeger, which breeds in North America from North SomersetIsland at Fury Point (Ross) and Upernivik on the west coast ofdistributionmigr292cook

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