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THE BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS. 



DiOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS, Boic. 



On July gth 1897, an exhausted individual of this species was 

 captured on the Streetly Hall Farm, near Linton, in Cambridge- 

 shire, and was sent by Mr. S. Owen Webb to Mr. Travis, a 

 taxidermist at Bury St. Edmunds (Ibis 1897, p. 625). Through 

 the good offices of the Rev. Julian Tuck, Col. E. A. Butler and 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, the specimen was sent to London for the 

 inspection of Mr. Salvin and others. Mr. Southwell has neatly 

 remarked that after all the species was only revisiting the haunts of 

 its remote ancestors, for the bones of an Albatross of medium size, 

 from the Suffolk "red crag" near Ipswich, have been described and 

 figured by Mr. R. Lydekker. 



For some years past it has been an established fact that birds 

 of this species occasionally reached the Northern Atlantic. On 

 June 15th 1878, Capt. David Gray, of the 'Eclipse' whaler, when 

 in lat. 80° 11' N., and long. 4° E., obtained a Black-browed 

 Albatross, which is now in the Peterhead Museum ; while in the 

 log of the 'Eclipse' for May 2nd 1885 there is the record of a 

 bird having been seen in 74° N., which, considering the experience 

 of its observers, may fairly be assigned to the same species. In 1S93 

 a Black-browed Albatross was shot near Mygganaes, in the Freroes, 

 and from a long account given by Mr. Knud Andersen, it appeared 



