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corn and latericorn were largely intact, enabling me to cor- 
roborate the original identification. Dr. Ayres was one of the 
earlier members of the Academy and well-known in his day 
as an ichthyologist. 
“A specimen of this Albatross said to have been procured in 
the Bay of Panama by Mr. Bridges is in the collection of the 
British Museum.”* 
Capt. R. Paefsler has recently recorded the occurrence of 
this species in latitude 5° 1’ S., longitude 81° 1’ W.? 
So far as I am aware, there are no other records for the 
region under consideration. 
Gould’s type (now in the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia) and original description appear to me to be a 
surer means of determining the specific name of the present 
species than J. R. Forster’s original D. chrysostoma descrip- 
tion, which is not altogether definite when T. bulleri is con- 
sidered.* Forster’s chrysostoma is therefore rejected and 
Gould’s culminata retained. 
The original account and plate* clearly manifest that Thalas- 
sogeron eximius Verrill was based primarily upon a misunder- 
standing of the bill characters of T. culminata and T. chloro- 
rhynchos. The account states that the supposed new species 
is more closely related to T. chlororhynchos than to T. culmin- 
ata, while figure 2 of the plate plainly shows that the culmini- 
corn is rounded at the base as in T. cuJminata, and not pointed 
as in T. chlororhynchos.’ The color characters assigned are 
of the sort occurring commonly in variations that are not of 
specific import. “T. exwnius”’ is therefore consigned to the 
synonymy of T. culmunata. 
Thalassogeron desolationis Salvadori has apparently no bet- 
ter support than such shadowy characters as variation in the 
length of the outer toe and in the width of the membrane at 
the base of the culminicorn.® 
1 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, v. 3, 438; refer also to Salvin’s monograph, 451. 
According to Dr. Dall, Thomas Bridges wee ee Panama in 1855 (Memorial Sketch, 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1866, v. 3, pt. 3, 236). 
2“Den 13. Mai in Paito in 5, 1° S ’81, 1° W: cee tethys, Puffinus griseus, 
Thalassogeron culminatus viele.” J. £. O., 1913 v. 61, 0. 
f. Mém. Math. et Phys. prés. Acad. Roy. Sci. [Paris], 1785, v. 10, p. 571, pl. 14; 
Nase Birds Austr., A 2, p. 278. 
4Trans. Conn. Acad. Art. a v. 9, pp. 440-443, pl. 8. i 
5 Cf. Salvadori, Ibis, 1914, 504. 
Ciete Salvadori, Ibis, 1914, . ae orig. descr., Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. comp. Univ. 
Torino, 1911, v. 26, No. 638, p. 
