NO. 1116. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



647 



? DIOMEDEA NIGRIPES, Audubon. 



Diomedea nUjripes, Audubon, Orn. Biog., V, 18;:59, p. 327 (eastern Pacilic, ]at. 

 r>0'- X. ; IT. S. Nat. Mus.).— Cassix, Illustr. Birds Cal. Tex., etc., 1853, ji. 210, 

 1>1. 35.— Baikd, Brewkr and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., II, 1884, 

 p. 355.— Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 1887, p. 51. 



Ramje. — ]!^orth Pacific Ocean, especially the eastern side. ? Casual 

 in tlie Galapagos Archipelago (Hood Island, Habel). 



ASCERTAINKI) RAN(;E OF THE GENUS DIOMEDEA, LINX.KUS, IN THE (iAEAPA(U).S ARCHI- 

 PELAGO. 



1. Diomedea exulnns, Linn;pus?. 



2. Diomedea iiif/ripes, Audubon?. 



This is very likely the species seen by Dr. Habel which "had a dark 

 blackish breast and a white band crossing- the head from one eye to the 

 other," D. nigripes being of a uniform deep sooty brown with the fore 

 part of the head whitish. 



