528 Nichols and Murphy, Genus Phoebetria. [oct. 



We have seen but one specimen, a breeding female from Ker- 

 guelen. 



Measurements in mm. 



Phoebetria palpebrata huttoni Mathews. 



Phoebetria pal'pehrata huttoni, Mathews, Bii'ds of Australia, Vol. II, p. 297, 



1912. 

 Type Locality, New Zealand seas. 

 Range, Subantarctic islands of New Zealand (breeding), Australian and 



New Zealand seas (Mathews). 



Two specimens in the collection of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., have been compared with a large 

 series of antarctica from South Georgia. In coloration the two 

 subspecies bear close resemblances, but the New Zealand birds are 

 perhaps slightly darker and notably smaller in all their dimensions. 



Culmen moderately concave in profile, angular (i. e. with a well 

 marked ridge) at its base. Groove of lower mandible narrow (cf. 

 fig. Mathews, /. c, p. 294). Head dark grayish-brown, darkest 

 in loral region. Back and under surface ashy, rump darker than 

 back. 



Measurements. 



