Diomedea melanophrys in the Furde Islands. 101 
southern boundaries for the distribution of this species in the 
open Atlantic, are about lat. 34°-36° and 51° 8. Gould (3) 
gives it in round numbers as 35° and 55° §. It seems, 
however, commonly to occur in greater numbers only between 
lat. 40° and 50° §. The northern range of D. melanophrys 
in the open Atlantic may thus, from the hitherto known 
observations, be fixed as off the southern extremity of Africa 
(lat. 35° S.), while, on the coasts of the ocean, it extends 
under lat. 23° S. Towards the south this Albatross has been 
seen, both in the open sea and along the coast, about as far 
as off the southern extremity of America. 
Indian Ocean.—Oft the southern part of the east coast 
of Africa D. melanophrys is very common. Sperling (22) 
records its northern range as lat. 26° 8. It is included in 
the lists of the birds of Madagascar (Milne-Edwards and 
Grandidier, 34; Sibbree, 48). On the ocean itself, Layard (9) 
saw it north of Prince Edward and Crozet Islands (about 
lat. 41° S., long 46° E.). It has been observed several times 
in the vicinity of St Paul and Amsterdam (Schlegel, 11). 
The Zoological Museum of Copenhagen owns the skeletons 
of two specimens from lat. 38° S., long. 74° 20’ E., and of a 
third from lat. 38° 14’ &, long. 71° E. (ae, west of the 
above-named islands). Around Kerguelen Land it does 
not appear to be common; at all events it was not seen 
by the English, German, and American Expeditions to 
this place, undertaken to observe the transit of Venus in 
1874-75 (Eaton, ap. Sharpe, 33); whereas the “Challenger” 
Expedition brought home two specimens from Christmas 
Harbour, on the northern side of the island (about lat. 49° S., 
January 1874; Salvin, 31; Sclater 37); south of Heard 
Island it was not seen (lat. 53° 10’S.; Murray, ap. Sclater, 
37). I do not know of any observations recorded from the 
open sea north of lat. 38° S. and south of lat. 53° S. Gould (2) 
mentions it among the birds of Western Australia, without 
giving any exact locality; Layard (10) saw it now and then 
off the southern coast of Australia, between Cape Leeuwin 
and Adelaide; Gould (3) found it nowhere more common 
than on the south coast of Tasmania. 
Pacific Ocean. —On the eastern coast of Australia D. 
