Vol. XXXII 

 1914 J 



Nichols and JVIurphy, Genus Phcebetria. 



533 



This species is the P. fidiginosa of authors and is differentiate d 

 from the palpebrata group by the characters given in our key, p. 527. 

 In Hfe its most conspicuous mark is the absence of a gray mantle. 

 Our onlj- specimens are two collected by Mr. Murphy on March 26, 

 1913, lat. 39° S., long. 31° W., Atlantic Ocean. 



Plumage in general sooty black, slightly paler and grayer below, 

 brownish on crown and middle of back. Bill deep and straight 

 (see Mathews' Fig.), less strongly hooked than that of palpebrata; 

 ridge at base of culmen slight; broad mandibular sulcus yellow; 

 iris olive; white crescent bordering eye, and whitish quill shafts, 

 as in other members of the genus. 



Measurements. 



Phoebetria fusca campbelli Mathews. 



Phoebetria fusca campbelli, Mathews, Birds of Australia, Vol. II., p. 304, 



1912. 

 Type Locality, "Australian seas." 

 Range, Australian seas (Mathews); breeding range unknown. 



On its present basis this subspecies is hardly worthy of recogni- 

 tion for Mr. Mathews states simply that it is smaller in all its 

 dimensions than the western, typical race. Comparing our meas- 

 urements of fu^ca fusca with those given by Mathews for fusca 

 campheUi, we find notable differences only in the length of the 

 tarsus. We have seen no specimens from the reputed range of this 

 subspecies. 



