Plate CCLIII. Adult Female.
Tail of moderate length, rounded, but with the two middle broad
rounded feathers extending an inch beyond the next; bill dull green,
toward the end dusky; tibia, toes, webs, and lower half of tarsus
black, the upper half light blue; upper part and sides of head
anteriorly brownish-black; upper part of neck all round
yellowish-white; the rest of the neck white, barred with
brownish-black, each feather having two transverse bands of that
colour; breast white; sides, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts white,
barred with brownish-black, as are the upper tail-coverts; back and
wings brownish-black; primary quills of the same colour, white on the
inner webs toward the base, as are the secondaries and tail-feathers;
lower surface of wings mottled and barred with white and dusky.
_Female_, 20-1/4, 48.
From Massachusetts northward. Seen in Labrador. Breeds in high
northern latitudes.
Lestris pomarina, Bonap. Syn. p. 364.
Lestris pomarina, Pomarine Jager, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 429.
Pomarine Jager, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 315.
Pomarine Jager, Lestris pomarinus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
396; v. v. p. 643.