Vou. II, Pr. IT] LOOMIS—A REVIEW OF THE TUBINARES 1S 
the boreal bird. Several years ago I examined in the Field 
Museum of Natural History two specimens of the Short-tailed 
Albatross (No. 33501 and No. 33502) from “San Martin, 
Lower California,’ and in the Carnegie Museum a single 
specimen (No. 21881) from “Rosario Bay, L. C.” 
The eggs are apparently unknown. Dr. Godman in his 
Monograph of the Petrels ascribes a dozen time-honored speci- 
mens from the Bonin Islands to this species, but the Bonin 
Islands are within the range of the Laysan Albatross. It is 
probable that the breeding Seance will be found above latitude 
50° N., for Dr. Dall has reported “the mutilated carcass of a 
very young one, in August, at Atka.’” 
When at the United States National Museum in 1911, I 
failed to find the skull upon which Diomedea leptorhyncha 
Coues was founded, the specimen having been mislaid or lost. 
The records of the occurrence of the Wandering Aibatross 
in the region embraced by the present section of this paper are 
not satisfactory. 
Diomedea irrorata Salvin: GALAPAGOS ALBATROSS 
Plates 6-12 
SaLvin—Diomedea irrorata, 440, 445, pl. 8. 
GopMAN—Diomedea irrorata, liv, 330, pl. 93. 
Mr. Gifford’s observations tend to show that this albatross 
is absent from the immediate vicinage of the Galapagos 
Islands for a portion of the year, particularly December, Janu- 
ary, and February. As the type and a second specimen (No. 
212017 U. S. Nat. Mus.) were obtained on the coast of Peru 
in December,” it is not improbable that this species has a migra- 
tion in the Southern Hemisphere corresponding to that of the 
Black-vented Shearwater in the Northern Hemisphere, a 
migration after the breeding season in a direction not towards, 
but away from the Equator. 
Mr. Gifford’s notes in substance are as follows: They were 
rather common at sea in the southern portion of the archi- 
1 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., v. 5, 277. 
2 The type is a male and was Peeeced by Admiral A. H. Markham at Callao Bay 
(P. Z. S., 1883, p. 430). The U. S. National Museum specimen is a female and was 
taken by Dr. Robert E. Coker at Lobos de Tierra. 
