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and feet, with a white patch over the tail^ and sug- 

 gestions of white margins to the wing-coverts. Length 

 6 inches, wing 4i inches. Tail not forked at the end. 

 Grondal records that a specimen was picked up in a 

 meadow at Uthli5 in the south-east, some eight to ten 

 geographical miles inhmd, in June 1885, and that he 

 obtained the skin. The Storm Petrel feeds on small 

 Crustacea, mollusca, and any marine animal matter 

 which it can manage to swallow, and often, as is well 

 known, follows ships. 



[Diomedea (melanophrys, Boie). 



Herra Grondal {Vcrzeichniss, p. 369) mentions an 

 Albatross, which he designates as D. cJilororhynchus, 

 Temm., as being shot on the Vestmannaeyjar forty 

 years back, which would bring the date to about 1845 ; 

 he adds that the skeleton is now in the Zoological 

 Museum at Copenhagen. In Skyrsla he repeats this 

 statement, with the exception that he corrects the 

 name to D. culminata, Gould. 



In the Zoologist (1894, p. 337) will be found an 

 account by Mr. Harvie-Brown of a specimen of D. 

 melanoijhrys, of Boie, shot on the Faeroes and now 

 at Copenhagen. Several specimens of this species 

 have been obtained at different times in the North 

 Atlantic, and I think it best to put the Iceland bird 

 down, provisionally, as being of the same species. As 

 is well known, the albatrosses are inhabitants of warm, 

 southern oceans, but this species seems to stray oftener 

 than others to our latitudes.] 



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