888 Phoebastria albatrcs. 



Diomedea brachyura. 



1876. Taczanowski, Journ. f. Orn., 1876, p. 202 (Sud-Ussuriland, 43° n. Br., 

 gesehen abei- nicht gcfangen). 



1877. Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 40 (En 1875 observé par 

 Dybowski dans le baie d'Abrek). 



1877. Taiahobckiû (Taczanowskij, TpyH. V Ctfcjia Pyccit. Ectb., p. 363 



(vide Bull. 1877). 



Diomedea nigripes. 

 1877. Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1877, p. 40 (En 1875 Dybowski 



a envoyé 3 exemplaires tués dans le baie d' Abrek). 

 1877. Taiahobckiû (Taczanowski), Tpys. V Ctis^a Pyccic. Ectb., p. 363 



(vide Bull. 1877). 

 18S2. Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 398 (Un oiseaux des 



rivages du Kamtschatka). 



Diomedea brachyura. 



1882. Bean, Proc. Un. St. Nat. Mus., V, p. 170 (10. VIII about 40 miles to 

 the west of entrace to Plover Bay; 18. IX nordward of St. Lawrence). 



1883. Nelson, Cruise Corwin, p. 111 (Adults were seen between Saint Law- 

 rence Island and Plover Bay, Siberia... As we passed the Diomede 

 Islands, in the middle of Bering Strait, in July, a young was ob- 



- served). 



Diomedea nigripes. 



1884. Dybowski & Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884, p. 147 (Kam- 

 tschatka. ile de Bering). 



1885. Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1885, p. 477 (Deux oiseaux de 

 Vladivostok). 



1885. Stejnegek, Bull. JVà 29 Un. St. Nat. Mus., pp. 316, 331 (ex Taczanowski 

 1882 et Dybowski & Taczanowski 1884 cum signo interrogationis). 

 Diomedea brachyura. 



1885. Matschie & Ziemeb, Journ. f. Orn., 1885, p. 194 (ex Nelson 1883). 

 Diomedea albatrus. 



1885. Stejneger, Bull. Jtë 29 Un. St. Nat. Mus., pp. 89,316 (Pallas' descrip- 

 tion... is based upon a spécimen send from Kamtschatka by Stellee... 

 I also saw it in Kamtschatka, on the Bay of Avatscha, and suspect 

 that it is young bird of this species which bas been reported by Mr. Ta- 

 czanowski unter the naine oî nigripes Auddb. as having been taken in 

 Kamtschatka. — Bering Island, a C; first ones, old, observed l j % III; 

 14. IV not less than 8 were seen at one time near the village — Nikol- 

 skoje, hodie Grebnitzkoje; — during the summer, however, the black 

 young of the foregoing year are more numerous than adults, of whicb 

 a few remain ail summer, though without breeding of course; spéci- 

 men: J 1 adlt. 21. IX. 82.— Copper Island: spécimen: juv. 22. VI. 82j. 



1887. Nelson, Report. Natur. Hist. Coll. Alaska, p. 61 (Common about Be- 

 ring Straits in summer. A number were seen about the Diomede Is- 

 lands, and others about Saint Lawrence Island and the opposite Sibe- 

 rian shore). 



1887. Palmén, Vega-Exped. Vetensk. Jakttag., V, tab. 6 (Tschuktsch-omrâ- 

 dets ostkust 64 l / 2 °, ostra Kamtschatka^, Berings o ocb Kopparôn). 



