Diomedea melanophrys in the Kwrde Islands, 105 
Tt is certain, however, that breeding-places are found on 
some islands in the vicinity of New Zealand. Mr Dougall 
(Buller, 46) found it breeding in the Auckland, Campbell, 
and Antipodes Islands; in the Campbell Islands hundreds of 
nests were seen, at from about 700 to 1000 feet above sea- 
level. Mr Potts (26) also mentions it as breeding in the 
Aucklands; Buller (“ Birds of New Zealand,” vol. ii, 1888, 
p- 197) also names the Bounty Islands. Probable breeding- 
places are the Kermadec Islands (Cheeseman, 47) and the 
Chatham Islands (Travers, 21, Pitt Island; Buller, 50). 
Captain Abbott (8) describes the nest as “raised of mud 
to nearly a foot high from the ground.” Dougall (ap. Buller, 
46) says, on the contrary, that it is “built up of moss and 
earth about four inches above the surface of the ground”; 
the material of which the nest is made is “so taken from the 
soil as to leave a trench all round it, and this keeps things 
dry.” 
The eggs mentioned by Professor A. Newton (19) were 
“white, with blotches, a few spots and multitudinous specks 
of reddish-brown,” the markings being especially collected 
at the larger end; their size was 4:05 x 2°61, and 4x 2°57 
inches. The larger of two eggs measured by Buller was 
4:3 x 2:2 inches. The period of incubation is said to be 
sixty days (Dougall, ap. Buller, 46). 
THe ALBATROSS OF MYGGENAES Ho.Lm. 
After the detailed reports of Mr Bergh, British Vice- 
Consul, and of Mr Joensen, it is evident that the Myggenaes 
Albatross has lived in the Fierde Islands for a period of thirty- 
four years. As might have been expected, the accounts do 
not mention how it came there. If this Albatross had only 
been seen or killed in the northern part of the Atlantic, 
there would have been nothing very extraordinary in such 
a fact; it would, in this respect, have had several pre- 
decessors: a D. ewulans was killed at Dieppe about 1830 
(Degl., Orn. Eur., i1., p. 397); another near Antwerp, September 
1833 (sts, 1835, p. 259); a D. chlororhyncha was shot at 
Stockwith, near Gainsborough on the Trent, November 25, 
