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Diomedea culminata, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc. — Rather 

 abundant both in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, between the 

 30th and 50th degrees of S. lat. 



Diomedea chlororhynchos, Lath. — I observed this bird both in 

 the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, between the 30th and 60th de- 

 grees of S. lat. 



Diomedea melanophrys, Temm. — The most abundant species of 

 the southern seas, being equally numerous in every part between 

 the 30th and 60th degrees of S. lat. 



Diomedea fuliginosa^ Gmel. {Diomedea fusca, Audubon, Birds 

 of Am. pi. 407.) — This species is also to be met with in every part 

 of the ocean between the 30th and 60th degrees of S. lat., and is 

 equally common off the coast of Van Diemen^s Land, Cape Horn 

 and the Cape of Good Hope. 



Diomedea gibbosa, n. sp. — Face, ear-coverts, chin, abdomen, 

 upper and under tail-eo verts white ; the remainder of the plumage 

 very dark brown, approaching on the occiput, back of the neck 

 and wings to black ; bill yellowish horn-colour, becoming darker 

 at the tip and at the base ; feet in the specimen dark brown, but 

 doubtless of a bluish gray, inclining to flesh-colour in the living 

 bird. 



Total length 30 inches ; bill 4 ; wing 21 ; tail 7 ; tarsi 4. 



The above is the description of a new species in the collection 

 of the Zoological Society of London, to whom it w^as presented 

 by F. Debell Bennett, Esq., who had procured it in the North 

 Pacific. It differs from every other that has come under my 

 notice in the peculiar swollen and raised form of the base of the 

 upper mandible, which moreover rises high upon the forehead. 



Diomedea olivaceorhyncha, n. sp. — I propose this name for a 

 species, examples of which are wanting to our collections, and of 

 which a bill only has as yet come under my notice. In all pro- 

 babihty it will prove to be most nearly allied to Diomedea chlo- 

 t-orhyncha, and in size less than any other species yet discovered. 

 The bill, which is in the possession of Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart., is 

 3 inches and jths long from the gape to the tip, is of a uniform 

 olive-green, and in form is more slender and elegant than that of 

 the other members of the genus. The locality in which it was 

 procured is not known, but it is supposed to have been obtained 

 in the China seas. 



The foregoing list comprises all the species of Albatros known, 

 with the exception of the Diomedea brachyura of M. Temminck, 

 which is an inhabitant of the North Pacific ocean. There is, how- 

 ever, another bird in the Royal Museum at Berlin, which is said 

 to be the young of D. brachyura, but which, as it differs consi- 

 derably in structure, may prove to be another and entirely di- 

 stinct species from those above enumerated. It is of a uniforni 



