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Columbia River, has been ascertained by Professor I^aird to belong, not to that, but 

 to the present species. It is exceedingly problematical whether this bird is really 

 entitled to a place in the avifauna of !North America. In regard to its history and 

 distribution generally I have no information. 



Dr. Cooper expresses his conviction that this is a rare visitant on the Pacific coast 

 north of the equator, though said to have been obtained in 183G off the mouth of 

 the Columbia Itiver by Mr. Townsend. Dr. Cooper has, however, seen a skull 

 answering to the description of that of this species in the collection of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences in San Francisco. It wa.s taken by Dr. W. U. Ayres from a dead 

 specimen found on the outer beach near the Golden Gate. 



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Genus PHCSBETRIA, KKiniEXBArii. 



Phu:hdria, Rkkiienii. Syst. Av. 18.12, j). v (tyiw, Diometka fitliijinosti, (isiKi,. ). 



CuAR. Siiniliir to Tlutlassoyeron, but bill nmch more c()ni|iri'»<sL>(l, with Hhnrper cuhiu-n, and a 

 deep lungitudiiml sulcus ur irroove n1()ii<{ the Midi; of the lower niaiulible ; Imse of the eulnieii lurniiiig 

 ii deep angle into tlie featlK-ring of the foreheati, and feathers of the malar region extending forwonl 

 OS un acute angle on the lateral base of the mandible ; tail lengthened, euneate. 



Only one species of this genus is known, this {P. fuliyimsa) ranging over the greater part of the 

 Pucilic uml Southern oceans. 



Phoebetria fiiliginoBa. 



TKB SOOTT ALBATBOBB. 



Diomedm/iillgino.ia,C,\\v.\.. S. N. I. ii. 1788, .108. — Ti'.mm. PI . Col. 4C0. — I.awp.. in nainl's U. 



N. Am. 1858, 8->X — lUnil), C'nt. N. Am. II. 185i>, n<>. 1)33. — Cor i;s, Key, 187-', 320; Cheek 



List, 1873, no. .180. 

 Diimiiiliii (I'htihtl rill) fill :<iinon(r, BoN.vr. Consp. II. 18,15, 180. 

 PlueMriii/nliijiiwsii, CoiKs, Pr. Ac. Nut. Sei. Philiid. 1800, 180; 2d Check List, 1882, no. 812. — 



Kniow. Norn. N. Am. IJ. 1881, 703. 

 Piomi'dea pnliH'brntii, FoUst. " ic. iiicd. no. 102." 

 Diomctlea/usM, Aun. Oin. Hiog. V. 1831t, 110 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 200, pi. 444. 



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