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Until more satisfactorily indentified eggs are available, I shall not 

 attempt to give any measurements. 



Behavior. — Godman (lOOr) publishes the following scanty in- 

 formation about this species: , 



T. clilororhynchus is an inhabitant of tlie South Atlantic, the South Indiiin, 

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

 .servation for the first time on the 24th of .July, 1838, in lat. 30° 3^' S., long;. 

 20° 48' W., 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 

 tlieir 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 tirst encountered in the Soutli Indian Ocean on September 22, 1901, in lat. 

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

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

 as well as in the neighborhood of the Agulhas Sandbank, but eastward of this 

 in the southern ocean its place was taken by T. ciilminatus, 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. chlororhyuchtis 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. 206). 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 ofl: Capes Howe and Northumberland on the southern coast of Australia, and 



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



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



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



DISTRIBUTION. 



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

 ciilminatus. Said to breed on Falkland Islands and probably on 

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

 Islands) and in the Iijdian Ocean. 



'Range. — South Atlantic and South Indian Oceans and Australian 

 seas, ranging farther north than ciilminatus. 



Casual record. — One taken near the Bay of Fundy, New 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, Gaagh 

 Island: Two records, September 1 to 3. 

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