LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 19 



albatross of the south, can be differentiated with difficulty in life. The offshore 

 habits of the two seem identical. 



Winter. — Between breeding seasons this species, like otiiers of its 

 tribe, is given to wandering though it rarely crosses the tropics into 

 the northern hemisphere. In addition to our Xorth American rec- 

 ords there is another North Atlantic record mentioned in Godman's 

 Monograph (1907) as follows: 



Dr. Knud Andersen, of Darlnieuats, says a specimen was obtained on the 

 Ice in the North Atlantic in April, 1834, at Fiskumvand, Eker, Norway, about 

 59° 50' N. Lat., and was sent by Professor W. Boeck to the Christiania Museum, 

 and determined by Professor CoUett. It had previously been wrongly identi- 

 fied with T. chlororhynchus. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Breeding range. — The records of T. ciHininatus and T. chlororhyn- 

 chus are hopelessly confused, but apparently the former breeds in 

 the South Atlantic Ocean (probably South Georgia), in the South 

 Pacific Ocean (Campbell Island), in the South Indian Ocean (Ker- 

 guelen and the Crozet Islands) and on islands near Cape Horn 

 (Diego Rameres). 



Range. — Southern portions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian 

 Oceans, mainly between 30° and 60° South. 



Casual records. — Has wandered northward in the Atlantic Ocean 

 to Quebec (mouth of Moisie River, August 20, 1885) and Norway 

 (Fiskumvand, Eker, April, 1834) ; and in the Pacific Ocean to 

 Panama, California, and Oregon. 



Egg dates. — Cape Horn : Four records, January 8 to February 8. 

 South Georgia Island, Januar}^ 22. Campbell Island, October 10. 



THALASSOGERON CHLORORHYNCHUS (Gmelin). 



PINK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. 



HABITS. 



Dr. Leonard C. Sanford has recently added to his magnificent col- 

 lection of Tuhinares a specimen of this species taken on August 1, 

 1913, off Machias Seal Island, Maine, near the entrance to the Bay 

 of Fundy. This record adds a new species to the North American 

 list. 



As stated in the life histoiy of the preceding species, the two yel- 

 low-nosed albatrosses, Thalassogeron culminatus and T. chlororhyn- 

 chus^ are so much alike that their status and distribution are hope- 

 lessly confused. It is almost impossible to separate the references 

 to these two species; therefore, my attempt to write a separate life 

 history and give a separate distribution for each has not been very 

 satisfactory and I have no confidence in the correctness of either; 



