^2 Alexander, An?.tvalian Species of Tuhiuares. [i^r"oct. 



specifically, whilst ho has named the East Australian race T. c. 

 bassi. 



Sub-genus Diomedella. 

 Thalassarche cant us (Gould). White-capped or Shy Mollymawk 

 or Albatross. 



This species breeds on Albatross Island, in Bass Strait, and 

 perhaps also on Mewstone Island, off the south coast of Tasmania. 

 It does not seem to range far from its breeding-places, but is met 

 with in the seas of Tasmania and S.E. Australia, on the south 

 coast as far west as Cape Northumberland, S.A., and on the east 

 coast as far north as Sydney. On the New South Wales coast 

 it is said to occur only in June, July, and August, being very 

 plentiful in July {Emu, xv., p. 215). 



The type locality of the species is Recherche Bay, Tasmania, 

 where it was first ol^itained by Gould. Mathews has named a bird 

 obtained at Sydney wallaca [Austral Avian Record, iii., p. 160). 



Gexus Phcehetria. 

 Phcrhetria fuse a (Hilsenberg). Sooty Albatross. 



This species is met with across the Bight and in the South 

 Indian Ocean. Ferguson met with it in January and August, 

 W. Macgillivray in June, and I have observed it in March, April, 

 May, and July. Until recently the two species of dark Albatrosses 

 were not distinguished, so that earlier references can only with 

 doubt be attributed to either form, but it was probably this bird 

 which was met with by Peron on 7th January, 1802, off the 

 south coast of Western Australia (" Voyage aux Terres Australes," 

 vol. i., p. 215). It would appear that this was the only species 

 met with by Gould, as he could not fail to have noticed the light- 

 mantled form if he had seen it. A specimen captured in Port 

 Phillip is in the Melbourne Museum [Austral Avian Record, ii., 



P- 135)- 



The type locality of the species is the Mozambique Channel, 

 and Mathews has separated the Australian race under the name 

 P. f. camphelli. 



Phcehetria palpehrata (Forster). Light-mantled or Hutton Sooty 

 Albatross. 



This species is much less common in Australian seas than the 

 foregoing. Ferguson met with it in January, igi6, in the Bight, 

 and W. Macgillivray in May, 1917, and June, 1919, in the Southern 

 Indian Ocean and the Bight. I observed three specimens when 

 crossing the Bight in May, 1917. 



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

 named the New Zealand race P. p. hutloni. It is not known 

 which of these forms occurs in Australian seas, though Mac- 

 gillivray' s observations suggest that our birds range from the 

 Indian Ocean. Mathews would omit this bird from the Aus- 

 tralian list until a specimen is secured, but I think the fact of 

 its occurrence in our waters as now defined is sufficiently 

 established. 



