442 BIOMEDEID^. 



Hamilton, Tr. N. Zeal. hist, xyiii. p. 128 (1886) ; Lucas, Auk, iv. 



p. 1 (1887) ; Chapm. Auk, iv. p. 394 (1887) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. iii. 



p. 461 (1886) ; Reischek, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xxi. p. 126 (1889) ; 



Sa7iforcl, Zvol. 1889, p. 288 ; Cheeseman, Tr. N. Zeal. Inst, xxiii. 



p. 224 (1891) ; H. O. Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 641 ; G. E. Verrill, 



Trans. Connect. Ac. ix. p. 437 (1895). 

 Diomedea spadacea, Gin. tiyst. Nat. i. p. 568 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 790 (1790) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ii. p. 287 (1816) ; 



Steph. in S/iatvs Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 261 (1826) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. 



ii. p. 351 (1828) ; Grat/, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 650 (1844). 

 Diomedea exliulans, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 350 (1828). 

 Diomedea epomophera, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 351 (1828) ; £p, 



Consp. ii. p. 185 (]855). 

 Diomedea albatros, Furst. Descr, Anim. p. 27 (1844) {nee Pall.). 

 Diomedea adusta, Tsch. J. /. Orn. 1856, p. 157 ; Bj}. Consp. Av. ii. 



p. 185 (1855). 



Adult male. White, back from the base of the neck banded with 

 narrow transverse undulating dark lines (usually four lines on the 

 terminal fifth of each feather) ; scapulars more strongly banded, the 

 bands becoming broken up, and their general direction more parallel 

 with the margin of the feather, the tips of the longest feathers slaty- 

 black ; wings slaty-black, the lesser wing-coverts more or less 

 white on the inner webs, the white increasing towards the edge of 

 the wing ; middle and greater coverts narrowly edged with white, 

 the former towards the proximal end of the ulna becoming nearly 

 white with a few transverse dark lines ; primaries black, the con- 

 cealed portion of the shafts yellowish white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, the concealed portion of the primaries also 

 white, the exposed portion black with light-coloured shafts ; tail 

 white, a few irregular dark marks on both webs near the tip : bill 

 yellowish horn-colour, the base of the culmen and the mandible orange f 

 legs and feet flesh-colour. Total length about 42 inches, wing (from 

 carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary) 25'5, tail 8-3, bill from 

 gape 7, from base of culmeu 6*7, tarsus 4-8, middle and outer toes 

 6*5, inner toe 5-8. (/. c? , New Zealand, Button; April 1875.) 



Young. Above dark brown, paler on the neck, with a dark patch 

 on the crown and nape ; wings uniform darker brown ; forehead, 

 sides of the head, and upper portion of the throat white ; under 

 surface whitish, paler on the abdomen ; the flanks speckled ; the 

 under tail-coverts brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 

 {(J. New Zealand.) 



Hah. Southern Ocean, Cape Seas, South Atlantic and South 

 Pacific Oceans to New Zealand. 



a. Imm. sk. South Indian Ocean, lat. 39° Earl of Crawford and 



40 'S., long. 32° 19' E., Oct. 12. Balcarres [P.]. 



i. Ad. st. Southern Ocean. F. C. Sturgeon, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Imm. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



d. Imm. sk. N.W. Australia. Capt. Beckett [C.]. 



e. Imm. sk. N. S. Wales. Australian Mua. 

 J. cf ad. sk. New Zealand, April {F. W. Hume Coll. 



Huttoti). 



g. Imm. sk. New Zealand. New Zealand Co. 



h. Vix ad. sk. South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 34° Earl of Crawford and 



S., long. 4° 29' E., Sept. 16. Balcarres [P.]. 



