914 Birds of Celebes: Diomedeidae. 



Briiggemann, and Mr. Biittikofer informs us that there are two specimens 

 (cf & Q) of this species from the same traveller in the Leyden Museum. 

 Musschenbroek informed Meyer (7) that he got a specimen of this species 

 between Manado and Kwandang in the Minahassa, but he himself elsewhere 

 (N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, 379) speaks of a Procellaria leucoptera, and the 

 name seems to relate to the same specimen; we cannot tell which species is 

 really concerned in this case. 



The Streaked Shearwater is a rather rare species, and but little is known 

 of its habits. By its strongly graduated wedge tail it belongs to the same group 

 as P. cuneatus and chlororhynchiis, but it is easily recognised by its larger size 

 and much larger bill, and by its face and fore part of head being white, streaked 

 with blackish. 



"Procellaria leucoptera" van Musschenbroek, N. T. Ned. Ind. 187(5, 

 XXXVI, 379. As is mentioned above, Musschenbroek under this name 

 mentions a bird obtained by him in Celebes, which seems to be the same as 

 that recorded by Meyer after his information as Puffinus leucomelas (Ibis 1879, 

 145). Musschenbroek announced that he was bringing an example to Europe. 

 We do not know whether this specimen still exists or not, but Mr. Biittikofer 

 states (171 lit.) that there is neither Proc. leucoptera nor Puf^mis leucomelas from 

 v. Musschenbroek in the Leyden Museum. Schlegel has recorded a Procellaria 

 leucoptera from Ternate, but Mr. Salvin includes this in the synonymy of his 

 P. heraldica of Chesterfield Is., W. Pacific Ocean. Its occurrence in Celebes 

 appears highly probable, but there is at present no satisfactory evidence that it 

 has ever been found there. 



FAMILY DIOMEDEIDAE. 



GENUS DIOMEDEA L. 



391. DIOMEDEA sp. 



Albatros sp. 

 ? "Diomedea brachyura" van Musschenbroek, N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, ^79. 



Musschenbroek here announces that he shot an Albatros in Celebes, 

 but afterwards lost the skin. Such birds are of course very likely to appear 

 occasionally off the coast of Celebes. From the distribution of the species given 

 in Mr. Salvin's catalogue (Cat. B. 1896, XXV, 440—448) it would appear that 

 D. albatrus Pall., D. exuJans L. and Z). nigripes And. are the species more likely 

 to occur there than the others; of these D. vigripes may be recognised by its 

 smaller size (wing 470 — 546 mm: after Baird, Brewer & Ridgway), by its 

 uniform dusky plumage and black legs and feet, D. albatrus by its white plumage 

 (when adult), except the tail and remiges which are slaty-brown, and straAv- 



