Annual report . Pdrasiticus Bills of jaegersi nat. size. Parasitic jaeger. (Note the gradual change in the whiteness of theprimary shafts.) not uncommon off our coast. The only definite record for this State isan immature bird in the plumage of the first fall taken on Long Island andnow in the Lawrence Collection [Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., no. 46094]. The jaegers of Giraud and DeKay are very difficult to make out. TheLestris parasiticus of Giraud, a description of which he copiesfrom Fauna Boreali Americana, is evidently the Long-tailed jaeger whichis now known as 1 o n g i c a u d u s , but the sp
Annual report . Pdrasiticus Bills of jaegersi nat. size. Parasitic jaeger. (Note the gradual change in the whiteness of theprimary shafts.) not uncommon off our coast. The only definite record for this State isan immature bird in the plumage of the first fall taken on Long Island andnow in the Lawrence Collection [Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., no. 46094]. The jaegers of Giraud and DeKay are very difficult to make out. TheLestris parasiticus of Giraud, a description of which he copiesfrom Fauna Boreali Americana, is evidently the Long-tailed jaeger whichis now known as 1 o n g i c a u d u s , but the specimen from South OysterBay [Birds of L. I. p. 365], which he ascribes to this species is undoubtedlythe light phase of a Parasitic and not a Long-tailed jaeger, since he states BIRDS OF NEW YORK IIQ that the tail feathers are about three inches shorter than the dimensionsgiven bv Swainson and Richardson. There seems no doubt also that thespecimens from Gowanus bay [Birds of L. I. p. 365] may be the young ofthe Parasitic jaeger. The specimen to which h
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