REPORT ON THE BIRDS — THE PEOCELLAEIID^E. 149 



23. Diomedea ehlororhyncha, Gm. 



Diomedea chlororhynchos, Gould, 11. Austr., vii. t. 42. 



No skins were preserved of this Albatross, but examples were 1 nought home in spirits. 

 Mr Murray sends the subjoined note respecting it :— 



" We found these birds building their nests and sitting on their eggs at Nightingale 

 Island. 



" The nests were raised about eleven inches above the ground, and about one and a half 

 feet in diameter, were composed of grass, sticks, and earth. Many of them were situated 

 in the Penguin rookeries, under the tall tussock-grass ; but the groat majority were in 

 the more open ground, under the clumps of Phijlica. 



"We noticed these birds walking to some projecting piece of rock, from which they 

 took flight. This species appears to me much more limited in its distribution than 

 Diomedea rwlanophrys. It was seldom noticed about the ship, except near the Tristan 

 group." 



Mr Moseley (Notes, p. 129) says of this species at Nightingale Island : — 



" Amongst the Penguins here were numerous nests of the yellow-billed Albatross 

 {Diomedea culmiuata), called by the Tristan people ' Mollymauk,' variously spelt in 

 books, Molly Hawk, Mollymoy, Mollymoc, Mallymoke. It is, as are most of the sealers' 

 names in the south, a name originally given to one of the Arctic birds, the Fulmar, and 

 then transferred to the Antarctic from some supposed or real resemblance." 



