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Until more satisfactorily indentified eggs are available, I shall not 

 attempt to give an}^ measurements. 



Behavior. — Godman (1007) piiblish^s (lie folloAviiig scanty in- 

 formation about this species : 



T. chlororhijnchvs is an inhabitant of the South Atlantic, the South Indian, 

 and tlie Australian Oceans. Gould relates that the species came'under his ob- 

 servation for the first time on tlie 24th of July, 1838, in lat. 30° 38' S., long. 

 20° 43' AV., from which period till the ship reached New South Wales scarcely 

 a day passed without its being seen. Upon some occasions it appeared in con- 

 siderable numbers, many of the birds being apparently one or two years old, 

 and these were easily distinguished from the adults, especially when flying, by 

 their dark-colored wings, back, and tail, and by the culmen of the bill being 

 less distinctly marked with yellow. 



Dr. E. A. Wilson, the naturalist on board the Discovery, says that the species 

 was first encountered in the South Indian Ocean on September 22, 1901, in lat. 

 35° S., long. 14° W., and remained with the ship till the 30th of tliat month ; 

 it reappeared quite close to shore oK False Bay on the coast of South Africa, 

 as well as in the neighborhtK)d of the Agulhas Sandbank, but eastward of this 

 in the southern ocean its place was taken by T. cuhninafus, which had not 

 previously been observed. T. chlororhynchus appears to frequent different lo- 

 calities varying with the season of the year. 



Mr. Robert Hall mentions T. chlororhynclius as frequejiting the entrance 

 of Christmas Harbor in Kerguelen Island, but he did not find it breeding. 

 Dr. Filhol says that the species breeds on Campbell Island, but there is some 

 doubt whether he identified the bird accurately (Ibis, 1903, p. 266). Mr. 

 Nicol, however, believed, that at the time of the "Valhalla's" visit to Tristan 

 da Cunha, the "Yellow-nosed albatross" was nesting on the top of the crater, 

 but the weather was too unfavorable to allow of his reaching its haunts. 



Gould (1865) says of it: 



The yellow-nosed albatross is plentiful off the Cape of Good Hope, and in 

 all the intermediate seas between that point and Tasmania ; I also observed 

 it off Capes Howe and Northumberland on the southern coast of Australia, and 

 Gilbert states that he saw it flying about Rottnest Island on the western coast. 



In its flight and general economy it greatly resembles the next species 

 (Diomedea melanophrys) with which it is often in company. 



DISTRIBUTION. 



Breediriff range. — Not well defined, and confused with that of T, 

 culm.inaMis. Said to breed on Falkland Islands and probalily on 

 other islands in the South Atlantic (Tristan da Cunha and Gough 

 Islands) and in the Indian Ocean. 



Range. — South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans and Australian 

 seas, ranging farther north than cuhmnatus. 



Casual record. — One taken near the Bay of Fundy. Ncav Bruns- 

 wick (off Machias Seal Island, August 1, 1913) and one near Kongs- 

 berg, Norway (April, 1837). 



Egg dates. — Falkland Islands : Six records, October 8 to 23. Gough 

 Island: Two records, September 1 to 3. 

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