60 . GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA, 
rested and its wings closed it seemed to havea white collar around 
the black head. There was a marked contrast between the plum- 
beous back, the white collar and the black head.” On June 4th 
I saw a number of specimens circling over a pool by the road- 
side not far from the hotel at Stony mountain, 14 miles from Win- 
nipeg, Manitoba. The white was on the dend of both wings in all 
the birds seen. Further observations made at Ribstone creek, 
Sask., in August 1906, lead me to think that the forms mentioned 
above may have been albinos. (JZacoun.) 
Famity VI. RYNCHOPID A Skimm_rs. 
XXVIII. RYNCHOPS Linnzus. 1758. 
80. Black Skimmer. 
Rynchops ngra LINN. 1758. 
Accidental on the south Atlantic coast. A large flock seen in 
the Bay of Fundy. 1879. (Boardman.) 
ORDER TUBINARES, TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS. 
Famity VII. DIOMEDEIDAL. ALBarTRoOsses. 
XXIX. DIOMEDEA Linyzus. 1758. 
81. Black-footed Albatross. 
Diomedea nigripes AUDUBON. 1839. 
Common in the North Pacific Ocean, north to the Aleutian 
islands. Eleven specimens were taken near Point Barrow, Alaska, 
by MclIlhenny. 
82. Short-tailed Albatross. 
Diomedea albatrus PALL. 1769. 
Tolerably common on both coasts of Vancouver island, but 
more abundant on the west coast; have been taken in Victoria 
harbour. (famnin.) 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 
