58 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
ORDER TUBINARES. ‘T'UBE-NOSED SWIMMERS. 
Famity VII. DIOMEDEIDA. ALBATROSSEs. 
XXIX. DIOMEDEA Linnus. 1758. 
81. Black-footed Albatross. 
Diomedea nigripes AUDUBON. 1839. 
Off the coast of British Columbia to Lat. 51° N. (JVelson.) 
Common as far north as. Lat. 52°: N. in) the open sea, A few 
reported 300 miles south of Unalaska. (Dr. Bean.) West coast 
of Vancouver Island. (Fannzn.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have no doubt but that this bird breeds 
in some locality among the Aleutian Islands, for it is found there 
from the early part of May to late October. (TZurner.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One taken about 100 miles northwest of the north end of 
Vancouver Island, B.C., July 1891, by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
82. Short-tailed Albatross. 
LDiomedea albatrus PALL. 1769. 
From Lat. 50° N.in the North Pacific,this fine bird becomes more 
or less numerous and thence north replaces the preceding species; 
it is found throughout the Aleutian Islands and is numerous 
in Behring Sea and extends north to Behring Strait. (Ve/son.) 
From Lat. 52° N., this species increases in numbers as we go north, 
but the mouth of Cook’s Inlet and the Barren Islands seem to be 
its favorite resort. (Dr. Bean.) Tolerably common on both coasts 
of Vancouver Island, but more abundant on the west coast ; have 
been taken in Victoria Harbour. (Fannin.) 
Mr. W. Spreadborough found one dead on the beach at 
Esquimault, Vancouver Island, June 4th, 1893. 
BREEDING Notes.—Turner believed that this species breeds in 
the neighbourhood of Cape Newenham, near Bristol Bay, Alaska, 
as he saw numbers of them there in June, flying and sitting on 
rocks. 
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