Parasitic Jaeger

SCI Name:  Stercorarius parasiticus
Protonym:  Larus parasiticus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.136
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Stercorariidae / Stercorarius
Taxonomy Code:  parjae
Type Locality:  Within the Tropic of Cancer of Europe, America and Asia; restricted type locality, coast of Sweden.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STERCORARIUS
(Stercorariidae; Ϯ Arctic Skua S. parasiticus) L. stercorarius  of dung  < stercus, stercoris  dung; skuas pursue other seabirds until they disgorge their food, the disgorged food once thought to be excrement, hence a former name 'Dung-hunter'; "Stercorarius. Genus 101.  ...  **1. LE STERCORAIRE. ... STERCORARIUS" (Brisson 1760): based on "Arctick Bird" of Edwards 1750; "Stercorarius Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p.l 56; 6, p. 149. Type, by tautonymy, Stercorarius Brisson = Larus parasiticus Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 311). 
Var. Stercoraria, Stercararius, Stercoreus.
Synon. Atalolestris, Cataracta, Coprotheres, Labbus, Lestris, Oceanus, Praedatrix.

stercorarius
L. stercorarius  of dung  < stercus, stercoris  dung (syn. Neophron percnopterus).

parasiticus
L. parasiticus  parasitic  < Gr. παρασιτικος parasitikos  parasitical  < παραςιτος parasitos  parasite.
● ex “Parasite” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 22 (syn. Milvus migrans parasitus).
● "69. LARUS.  ...  parasiticus.  6. L. rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.  Sterna rectricibus maximis nigris. Fn. svec. 129. It. Wgot. 182. Act. Stockh. 1753. p. 291.  Avis norvegica Kyussa. Oel. mus. 1. f. 11. n. 20.  Truen s. Fur. Barth. act. 1. p. 91.  Coprotheres. Raj. av. 127. n. 2. Martens. spitz. 63. t. L. f. D.  Avis arctica. Edw. av. 148. t. 148. & t. 149. f. 2.  Habitat intra tropicum Cancri, Europæ, Americæ, Asiæ.  Piscaturæ ineptus agitat congeneres, vomituque ejectum cibum arripit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Stercorarius).