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Diomedea epomophora epomophora Lesson. Campbell Island 

 Royal Albatros. 

 Diomedea epoinophora Lesson, Annales Sci. Nat. Paris^ 

 1st ser. vol. vi. 1825, p. 95 : Campbell Island. 



Synonym : — 



Diomedea regid BuUer, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1891, "\ol. xiil. 

 1892, p. 230 ; Otago and Campbell Island ; Buller, Suppl. 

 vol. i. p. 1.38 (part.). 



Range: New Zealand Seas — Campbell Island (breeding). 



Diomedea epomophora mccormicki Mathews. Enderby Island 

 Royal Albatros. 

 Diomedea epomophora mccormicki Mathews, Birds Austr. 

 vol. ii. 1912, p. 216 : Auckland Islands. 



Synonym : — 



Diomedea ref/ia Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 138 (part.). 



Range : — Enderby Island, Auckland Group (breeding). 



Note : — Mathews (/. c.) has shewn that D. regia Buller, 

 at best, was a mixture of the two preceding forms ; whilst 

 Lesson's name is certain and has over sixty years priority. 



Genus THALASSARCHE. 



Thalassarche Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, 1852, p. v. 

 Type (by original designation) : T. melanophris (Tem- 

 minck) . 



Thalassarche melanophris impavida Mathews. Australian 

 Black-browed Mollymawk. 

 Thalassarche melanophris impavida Mathews, Birds Austr. 

 vol. ii. 1912, p. 267 : Tasmania. 



Synonym : — 



Diomedea melanophrys Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 146. [The type- 

 locality of Diomedea melanophris Temuiinck & Laugier, 

 Planch. Color. d'Ois. 76 livr. 1828, pi. 456, is Cape Seas.] 



Range :— New Zealand Seas : Campbell Island (breeding) ; 

 ? Sisters, Chatham Islands. 



