'10 Alexander, AiistvaHan Species of Tnhinares. [i^if'oct. 



The type locality of the species is Kerguelen, and Mathews has 

 named a bird obtained at Sydney D. c. rohui. This is presumably 

 the form usually found in Australian seas, but in his " Birds of 

 Australia" Mathews attributed to the typical race a bird which 

 was caught at the Crozets by some shipwrecked sailors and 

 liberated with a message round its neck, and which was sub- 

 sequently captured at Fremantle. In The Emu, vol. xviii., p. 86, 

 he wrote : — " I understand that doubt has now been cast upon 

 that record" — apparently referring to remarks made by me, in 

 which I queried the advisability of including this species in the 

 list of West Australian species {Emu, xv., p. 183). There is no 

 doubt about the record ; my doubt is as to the justification for 

 the assumption that a bird caught on the Crozet Islands, and only 

 described as "an Albatross," must have been a specimen of 

 D. c. chionoptera. Might it not have been D. exiilans ? 



The specimen caught on the coast of New South Wales, and 

 referred to in The Emu (vol. xv., p. 215) under the name of D. 

 regia, was presumably the type of D. c. rohui. 



[Sub-genus Rhoihonia. 

 Diomedea epomophora (Lesson). Royal Albatross. 



Mathews considers that a bird captured on Capt. Cook's first 

 voyage to the east of Bass Strait, on nth April, 1770, and 

 described by Solander, was of this species, better known under 

 the name of D. regia. 



There is apparently no more recent record, but, as New Zealand 

 is the type locality, the species probably occurs in the seas off 

 S.E. Australia.] 



[Sub-genus Phcrbastria. 

 Diomedea albatrus (Pallas). Short-tailed or Steller's Albatross. 



Gould included this species in his " Birds of Australia " " more 

 for the purpose of including a second species of the restricted 

 genus Diomedea than for its being, strictly speaking, an Aus- % 

 tralian bird ; still, the chances are that it does' frequently visit 

 the northern coasts of that countr}' " (i, p. 433). There is no 

 record of its occurrence south of the equator, it being confined to 

 the North Pacific, and it should have no place on the Australian 

 list.] 



Genus Thalassarche. 

 Sub-genus Thalassarche. 

 Thalassarche melanophris (Temm.) Black-browed or Spectacled 

 Mollymawk or Albatross. 



This species is the commonest member of the family in the 

 Bight and on the south coast of Western Australia during the 

 winter months, and Ferguson and I have both recorded its 

 occurrence there in January. Curiously enough, at the beginning 

 of April, 1917, I saw none when crossing the Bight, though they 

 were numerous off the coast of Western Australia, and I also saw 

 them in the Gulf of St. Vincent, South Australia ; but in March, 

 1919, May, 1917, and July, 1916, I found them plentiful all the 



