444 DIOMEDEIDiE. 



4. Diomedea albatrus. 



Tohaiki, Steller, Hist. Camtsch. p. 1.54 (1774). 



Albatros de la Chine, D'Aub. PI. Enl. 96.3. 



Diomedea albatrus, Pall. Spic. Zool. v. p. 28(1780) ; id. Zoogr. Soss.- 



As. ii. p. 308 (1811); Swmk. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 422; Bavid. ^ 



Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 516 (1877) ; Baird, Brew., Sr Ridgiu. Wat£r- 



Birds N. Am. ii. p. 3-51 (1884) ; Turner, Auk, ii. p. 158 (1885) ; 



id. Confr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 128 (1886) ; A. O. U. Check-l. N. 



Am. Birds, p. 97 (1886) ; 8tejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mm. no. 29, 



pp. 89, 316 (1885) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 125 (1887) ; 



Bverm. Auk, iii. p. 89 (1886) ; Blakiston, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. 



p. 655 (1887) ; Eidffw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 51 (1887) ; id. Pr. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 663 (1893) ; Toions. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



xiii. p. 142 (1890) ; Sceb. Ibis, 1890, p. 205 ; id. Birds Jap. Emp. 



p. 261 (1890) ; 7acs. Mem. Ac. Imp. St. Petersb. xxxix. p. 1068 



(1893) ; Loomis, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sc. ser. 2, xxir. p. 216 (1895). 

 Diomedea chinensis, Temm. Man. dCOrn. i. p. ex, ex D^Auh. PI. Enl. 



963 (1820). 

 Diomedea spadacea, var. /3, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 52 (1824). 

 Diomedea brachyura, Te7nm. PI. Col. livr. 79 (1829), et Pi. Col 554 



(livr. 94, 1835) ; Peak, U.S. E.iyl. Exp. viii. pp. 290, 337 (1848) ; 



Gould, Birds Austr. vii. pi. 39 (1848) ; id. Handb. Birds Austr. ii. 



p. 433 (1865) ; Cassin, Birds Calif. <S" Te.ras, p. 289, pi. 50 (1862) ; 



Beich. Syst. Av., Natatores, pi. 26. fig. 345 (18.50) ; Temm. ^ Schl. 



Faun. Jap. p. 132, pi. 87 (18-50) ; Laivr. Birds N. Ain. p. 822 



(1860) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B., vi. Procell. p. 32 (1863) ; Stoinh. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 329, 1871, p. 422 ; Gigl. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 56 (1870) ; 



id. Viagg. ^Magenta' pp. 108, 536, 655, 716 (1875) ; Coues, Key 



N. Am. Birds, p. 325 (1872) ; id. op. cit. ed. 2, p. 775 (1884) ; id. 



Orn. Prybilov Is. (1874) ; id. Check-l. N. Am. Birds, p. 125 (1882) ; 



Bean, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. pp. 170, 173 (1882) ; H. W. Elliott, 



Seal-Islands of Alaska, p. 131 (1882) ; Nelson, Cruise ' Corwin,' 



p. Ill (1883). 

 Diomedea derogata, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 786 ; id. Ihis, 1874, p. 165, 



1875, p. 140; David ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 516 (1877) ; Blakist. 8^ 



Pryer, Trans. As. Sac. Jap. x. p. 106 (1882) ; Blakist. Amended List 



Birds Jap. pp. 21, 35 (1884) ; id. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mtis. ix. p. 6.55 



Adult male. White, top of the head, nape, and back of the neck 

 strongly tinged with buff; longest scapulars, wings, and end of the 

 tail greyish black, smaller wing-coverts variegated with white, and 

 a large white patch over the vicinity of the distal end of the 

 humerus ; shafts of the primaries and of the tail yellowish white ; 

 under tail-coverts and axillaries pure white : bill yellowish horn- 

 colour ; legs and feet dark (in life bluish-white ?). Total length 

 about 37 inches, wing 22, tail 6-3, bill from gape 6-2, tarsus 3-9, 

 middle toe 5-5, outer toe 5'4, inner toe 4'7. 



Yoking. Wholly sooty-brown, including the under surface of the 

 wings, chin rather paler. 



Hab. North Pacific Ocean, 



-«. c?ad.; b. Jad. sk. Amoy, China, April 1866 Seebohm Coll. 



{R. Sioinhoe). 

 •c. <S ad.; d. Juv. sk. Chefoo, China, June 18, Seebohm Coll. 



1873 {R. Sioinhoe). (Types of D. derogata, 



Swinhoe.) 



