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General Distribution. Bulwer's Petrel breeds in the 

 north Atlantic, in the Madeira group, and in the Salvage 

 and Canary Islands ; also in the northern Pacific, in the 

 Bonin and Volcano Islands, Laysan, Necker, and Bird 

 Islands, and the Hawaiian group. It has also been 

 recorded from the Marquesas Islands, and has occurred 

 accidentally in Greenland, Japan, and China. An allied 

 species, B. macyillivrayi, is found in the Fiji Islands. 



Family DIOMEDEID^. 



Genus D10MEDEA Linnams, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 132. 

 Type: I). exuLins Linn. 



Diomedea =& bird of Diomede. 



Diomedea melanophrys. BLACK-BROWED 

 ALBATROSS. 



Diomedea melanophris Temminck, PI. Col. 76 livr. 1828, 

 pi. 456 : Cape seas. 



Diomedea melanophrys Boie ; Salvin, Cat. Birds jB. Jif. xxv. 

 1896, p. 447 ; founder*, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 753. 



Melauophrys = -wit}i black eyebrows from/ieAas and oQpvs. 



Distribution in tlie British Islands. A Rare Visitor. An 

 exhausted individual \vas captured near Linton, Cambridge- 

 shire, in July 1897. 



General Distribution. The Black-browed Albatross in- 

 habits the southern oceans, breeding in New Zealand waters 

 on the Chatham and Campbell Islands, and also in the 

 Falkland Islands. It frequents the bays near the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and occasionally wanders to the north Atlantic, 

 a specimen having been killed in the Faeroe Islands in 1894> 

 while another was obtained by a whaler between Greenland 

 and Spitsbergen, lat. 80 11' N., long. 4 E. 



