. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 332 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS â LONGIPENNES. 3. S. longicaudus. Wing, inches (() () ; culmt'ii, () ; tarsus, (l.(i(i) ; midclle toe, (). Tai-si light hhiish in adult; nasal shield not longer than the distance from anterior end of nostril to tip of bill. Stercorarius pomaiinus. THE FOMABUIE JAEOEB. Lams pomarinus, Temm. Man. Oiii. 1815, 514. â Sw. & llitu. A. II. 1831, 429. âNutt. Man. II. 1834, 315. â AUD. Orii. Biog. 111. 1835,
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 332 LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS â LONGIPENNES. 3. S. longicaudus. Wing, inches (() () ; culmt'ii, () ; tarsus, (l.(i(i) ; midclle toe, (). Tai-si light hhiish in adult; nasal shield not longer than the distance from anterior end of nostril to tip of bill. Stercorarius pomaiinus. THE FOMABUIE JAEOEB. Lams pomarinus, Temm. Man. Oiii. 1815, 514. â Sw. & llitu. A. II. 1831, 429. âNutt. Man. II. 1834, 315. â AUD. Orii. Biog. 111. 1835, 396 ; Syuop. 1839, 332 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 180, pi. 451. Stcrcorarim pomarinus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XXXII. 1819,158.âLawh. in Biiird's B. N. Am. 1858, 838. âBaikd, Cat,. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 053. Stercorarius pomutorhinus, , , 1805, 509. â Coue.«, Key, 1872, 309; Clieck List, 1873, no. 540 ; ed. 2, 1882, no. 705 ; B. N. W. 1874, 607. â Kidgw. Xom. X. Am. B. 1881, no. 697. Hab. Northern portion of northern hemisphere, on the seas and larger inland waters, but chiefly maritime. South, in Nortli America, to New Jersey and the Great Lakes. Si'. Chau. Adult, lightest phase: Pileuni, lores, and malar region, with entire upper surface, except tiie nape, uniform dark sooty slate, with a sliglit plumbeous tinge in certain liglits ; anal region and crissum uniform plumb<.'ous-slate, sometimes mixed with whitish. Rest of the licad and neck (including entire nape), and lower parts, except as described, immaculate white, the auricular region more or less deeply tinged with straw-yellow. Bill brownish white (ihill brownish in the dried skin), the terminal thint black ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet black, sometimes clouded with bluish.^ Adult, usual plumage: Similar to the above, but juguhmi and nape barred or transversely spotted with dusky, and the sides irregularly barred with the same. Adult, melanotic phase: Entirely dark sooty slate, with a plumbeous cast in
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