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6 (83) Thalassogeron culminatus (Gould) 
YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS 
Status—Known to California only from a skull thought by J. G. Cooper to 
have been of this species, and ‘‘found on the outer beach near Golden Gate’’; 
the skull was formerly in the California Academy, of Sciences (Baird, Brewer, 
and Ridgway, Water Bds. N. Amer., 1, 1884, p. 359; J. G. Cooper, Proc. Calif. 
Aead. Sei., 1v, 1868, p. 12), now probably destroyed. The species belongs to the 
South Pacific and Indian oceans. 
7 (84) Phoebetria palpebrata (Forster) 
Soory ALBATROSS 
Synonym—Phoebetria fuliginosa, part. 
Status—Asceribed to California (W. E. Bryant, Zoe, m1, 1892, p. 137) merely 
because it is a southern species and had been found off the coast of Oregon. 
No definite record for the state. The citation referred to by Willett (Pac. Coast 
Avif, no. 7, 1912, p. 110) undoubtedly belongs to Diomedea migripes. The spe- 
cies belongs to the southern Hemisphere. 
8 (85) Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin) 
j Giant FULMAR 
Synonyms—Fulmarus giganteus; Ossifraga gigantea. 
Status—Known only from the statement by J. G. Cooper (Amer. Nat., rv, 
1871, p. 758) that this huge petrel ‘‘could often be seen’’ in the summer of 1861 
about the whale fishery in Monterey Bay. Lack of specimens or later confirma- 
tory evidence casts a slight degree of doubt upon the record. The species be- 
longs to the southern Hemisphere. 
9 (87) Priocella glacialoides (Smith) 
SLENDER-BILLED F'ULMAR 
Synonym—fulmarus glacialoides. 
Status—One rather uncertain instance: A skeleton supposed to be of this 
bird found by J. G. Cooper on the beach at Santa Catalina Island in June, 1863 
(Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Bds. N. Amer., m1, 1884, p. 374). The cita- 
tion quoted by Willett (Pac. Coast Avif. no. 7, 1912, p. 110) proves upon exam- 
ination to refer to the same instance. This species occurs chiefly south of the 
Equator. 
10 (113) Phaéthon aethereus Linnaeus 
ReEpD-BILLED T'ROPIC-BIRD 
Status—According to W. E. Bryant (Proe. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2nd ser., u, 
1889, p. 86), Dr. J. G. Cooper averred ‘‘that a skull of a tropic bird was found 
by Mr. Gruber on the coast of Marin County about twenty years’’ previously. 
There is no confirmatory evidence in this regard, although the species continues 
to be credited to California (as, for instance, by Reed, N. Amer. Birds Eggs, 
1904, p. 55). The species is known to occur north along the Mexican coast as 
