b CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — North Pacific Ocean, mainly north of the Tropic of Cancer but 

 found occasionally near to the Equator; ranging from the Alaska Peninsula to 

 Lower California, north to the Aleutian Islands and southern Bering Sea 

 west to Formosa Channel, Japan, and the Kurile Islands. Breeds on Nihoa, 

 Necker, French Frigate Shoals, Laysan, Lisiansky, Pearl and Hermes Reef, 

 Johnston Island, Caspar Rico, Midway, Ocean, Marshall, Volcano, and Bonin 

 islands (formerly on Marcus Island) . 



Diomedea albatrus Pallas. Short-tailed Albatross. [82.] 



Dioinedea albatrus Pallas, Spic. Zool., I, Fasc. v, 1769, 28. (ad oram 

 Kamtschatcae orientalum ... ad Insulam Beringii = Bering Sea.) 



Range. — North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea east to the coast of North 

 America from Norton Sound, Alaska, south to Lower California and west to 

 Formosa, China and Japan seas, Kurile and Commander islands, and Okhotsk 

 Sea; north to Bering Straits in summer. Breeds on Wake and Bonin islands. 



Diomedea immutabilis Rothschild. Laysan Albatross. [82.1.] 



Diomedea immutabilis Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, I, No. ix, June 1, 

 1893, xlviii. (Laysan Island, North Pacific.) 



Range. — Central Pacific Ocean east to the coast of Lower California 

 to about lat. 40° N. and west to the Bonin Islands. Breeds on Gardner, 

 Laysan, Midway, French Frigate Shoals, Necker, Nihoa, Pearl and Hermes 

 Reef, Midway, Ocean, and Lisiansky islands (formerly on Marcus Island). 



Genus THALASSOGERON Ridgway. 



Thalassogeron Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 N. Amer., II, 1884, 345, 357. Type, by orig. desig., Diomedea cidmin- 

 ata Gould = D. chrysostoma Forster. 



• Thalassogeron chlororhynclios (Gmelin). Yellow-nosed Albatross. [83.] 



Diomedea chlororhynchos Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 568. Based 

 on the Yellow-nosed Albatross Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. i, 309. 

 (ad caput bonae spei et in mari australi extra tropicos = Off Cape of 

 Good Hope.) 



Range. — South Atlantic, southern Indian Ocean, and Australian seas. 

 Breeding range confused with that of T. chrysostomus (Forster), probably on 

 Falkland, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough islands and islands in the Indian 

 Ocean. Accidental in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, near the mouth of Moisie 

 River, Quebec (September, 1884), i and near Seal Island, ofif Machias Bay, 

 Maine (August 1, 1913).2 



1 Dionne, Oiseaux Quebec, 1906, 61. 



2 Murphy, Auk, XXXIX, 1922, 58. 



