ypotnetical List 



Certain birds have been listed for Oregon on evidence or information 

 that for various reasons is not now considered sufficient. For example, 

 several species of southern sea birds have long been credited to Oregon 

 on the basis of birds collected by Townsend over one hundred years ago. 

 Nothing has occurred since that time to confirm these species as belong- 

 ing within the present limits of the State, and present-day ornithologists 

 generally discredit these as North American records. Such questionable 

 records as we have found are listed here until more definite and convincing 

 information can be obtained. 



Flat-billed Albatross: 



Thalassogeron chrysostomus (Forster) 



THIS BIRD is included in Oregon bird lists solely on the statement of 

 Townsend (1839), whose specimens are supposed to have been taken off 

 the Oregon coast. This record, as well as those of several other southern 

 birds, is considered too indefinite and uncertain to be considered authentic, 

 and the bird was excluded from the last A. O. U. Check-List. It has 

 usually appeared as Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassogeron culminates 

 (Gould) and is confused with another southern albatross, neither of which 

 belongs in an Oregon list of birds. 



American Sooty Albatross: 



Phoebetria palfebrata auduboni Nichols and Murphy 



THIS ALBATROSS appears as an Oregon bird exactly as the previous one 

 on the sole basis of some of Townsend's (1839) specimens reputed to 

 have been taken off the coast of Oregon. 



Black-vented Shearwater: 



Puffinus opisthomelas Coues 



THIS SPECIES ranges north occasionally to Washington and British Colum- 

 bia but has never to our knowledge been taken off the Oregon coast. In 

 company with Braly (Gabrielson, Jewett, and Braly 1930) we saw small, 

 white-bellied shearwaters off Newport, Lincoln County, that were prob- 

 ably of this species, but we did not get close enough to take specimens, 

 and the bird has not yet been identified definitely from Oregon. Because 

 of the similarity of this form to other white-breasted shearwaters, we do 

 not deem it advisable to add the bird to the Oregon list on the basis of 

 sight records. 



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