1, DIOMEDEA. 



445 



e, cJ ad. ; /. d'juv. Hakodate, Japan, April, July Seebohm Coll. 



sk. 1888 {Blakiston). 



ff. cj juv. sk. Hakodate, July (Blakiston). Seebohm Coll. 



h, i. Ad. ; j, k. Inim. Liu Kiu Islands. Purchased. 



/. Imm. sk. 

 m. Ad. sk. 



n, 0. Skeletons. 



Nagasaki, Japan. 

 Hamilton Is. 



F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 

 A. G. Wildaj', Esq. 



5. Diomedea irrorata. (Plate VIII.) 



Diomedea irrorata, Salv. P. Z. /S. 1883, p. 430 ; Tacz. Om. Per. iii. 

 p. 461 (1886) ; Pid</w. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 52 (1887). 



Adult male. Head and neck white, the nape and the back of the 

 latter slightly tinged with buff ; back, wings, and tail greyish 

 sooty brown ; the base of the neck, interscapular region, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts freely mottled and banded -with white ; whole 

 abdomen and breast, under wing-coverts, axillaries, and under tail- 

 coverts sooty-brown, freely mottled and freckled with white : bill 

 yellowish, the tip of the mandible horn-colour ; feet dark. Total 

 length about 35 inches, wing 21, tail 5'5, bill 6"2, tarsus 3'8, 

 middle toe o'l, outer toe 5, inner toe 4-4. 



Hah. West coast of Peru. 



a. (S ad. sk. 



Callao Bav, Coast of Peru, Dec. 

 1881 {Capt. A. H. Markham). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (Type of the species.) 



6. Diomedea nigripes. 



Diomedea nigripes, Aud. Om. Biogr. v. p. 327 (1839) ; id. Birds Am 

 Svo ed. vii. p. 198 (1844) ; Graij, Gen. Birds, iii. p. 650 (1844) 

 Cassin, Birds Calif. 4' Te.vas, p. 210, pi. 39 (1862); ScM. Mm. 

 P.-B., vi. ProceU. p. 33 (1863); D. Walker, P. Z. S. 1863, p. .380; 

 Sivink. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 329, 1871, p. 422 ; Ball Sr Bann. Trans 

 Chic. Ac. i. p. 302 (1869) ; Gigl. Faun. Vert. Oceano, p. 57 (1870) ; 

 id. Viayg. 'Magenta,^ pp. 331, 332 (1875); Dull, Notes Avif. Aleut 

 Is. p. 8 (1874); David ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 517 (1877); Coues, 

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

 id. Check-l. N. Am. Birds, 1882, p. 125 ; Bean, Pr. U.S. Nat. 3Ius. 

 V. pp. 169, 173 (1882) ; Nelson, Cruise ' Corwin,' p. Ill (1883) ; 

 Baird, Brew., S^ Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Am. ii. p. 355 (1884) ; 

 Blakist. Ainended List Birds Jap. pp. 21, 35 (1884) ; id. Pr. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. ix. p. 656 (1886) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1884, p. 176, 1885, p. 363, 

 1891, p. 191 ; id. Birds Jap. Emp. p. 263 (1890) ; Stejn. Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 91 (1885) ; Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 

 ii. p. 129 (1886) ; A. O. U. C/icck-l. N. Am. Birds, p. 97 (1886); 

 Pidgw. Man. N. Am. Birds, p. 51 (1887) ; Towns. Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mm. xiii. p. 142 (1890) ; Loomis, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sc. ser. 2, v. p. 215 

 (1895). 



Diomedea brachyura, Gray, Oen. Birds, iii. p. 650 (1844) (nee Temm.) ; 

 Jac(]. 4" Puch. Voy. Pole Sud, iii. p. 139 (1853) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. 

 p. 184 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (18.56) ; Ball, Trans. 

 Chic. Ac. Sc. i. p. 302 (1869) ; id. Notes Avif. Aleut. Is. p. 8 (1874) : 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 740 ; id. op. cit. 1883", p. 430 ; id. Voy. Chad., 

 Zool. ii. pt. viii. p. 147 (1881) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1880, p. 76 ; Blakist. 

 ^ Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Jap. x. p. 106 (1882) ; Bean, Pr. U.S. 



