LONG-TAILED on BUTTON'S SKUA.
LESTRIS PARASITICUS (Linn.).
Larus parasiticus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 226 (1766).
Lestris crepidata, Naum. x. p. 534.
Lestris parasitica, Macg. v. p. 503.
Lestris buffonii, Hewitson, ii. p. 508.
Stercorarius parasiticus, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 680; Dresser,
viii. p. 481.
Labbe a longe queue, French; Schmarotzer-Raubmbve,
German.
This species is an irregular, and not a very common,
autumnal visitor to our shores, and occasionally straggles
to considerable distances inland. As T have no
personal acquaintance with this Skua in life, I quote
briefly from the most recent English authorities with
regard to its haunts and habits. The breeding-range
of Buffon's Skua is said to be confined to the arctic
regions of both hemispheres. Mr. H. Saunders informs
us that a few pairs nest on the Dovrefjeld in 62-g0
N. lat., and Wolley and Wheelwright found it breeding
in considerable numbers far inland on the fells of
Swedish Lapland. Seebohm met with it on the tundras
of Siberia, but remarks that he did not observe it on
migration in the valley of the Petchora. The last-