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so different, the former being called P. urinatrix, the 

 latter P. exsul. 



It should be again noted that Buller, in the Supplement, 

 Vol. I., p. 127, used P. exsul for the larger form from 

 Stephens Island and the Island of Karewa, while he 

 considered the smaller form to be P. urinatrix, writing : 

 " It occurs on the coasts of both Islands, and also at the 

 Chatham Islands and on the Snares." The type- 

 locality however of ' P. urinatrix is Queen Charlotte 

 Sound, which is quite close to Stephens Island. 



DiOMEDEA EXULANS Reischck. 



Reischek visited the Subantarctic Islands of New 

 Zealand for the purpose of studying the plumage-changes 

 of the Albatros, commonly known as Diomedea exulans. 

 He contributed a paper to the Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute (Vol. XXI.), covering the results of 

 his research. Having just recently carefully worked 

 through this group in conjunction with Mr. Mathews, 

 in the preparation of our ' ' Reference List of the Birds of 

 New Zealand," I was fairly conversant with the dis- 

 tinguishing characters of the species. The short time 

 at my disposal prohibited as exhaustive an examination 

 as I would have liked, but it is as well to record 

 that Reischek's observations on the plumages are 

 comparatively valueless. The specimens collected by 

 Reischek, covering his notes above quoted, are retained 

 in Vienna with his remarks as to age upon the back of 

 the labels. 



These specimens include skins of D. exulans rothschildi 

 Mathews, and D. epomopJiora Lesson, both the Campbell 

 Island and Auckland Islands breeding forms of the latter 

 being represented. This latter point is important. 

 Specimens from the Auckland Islands agree in every 

 detail with the distinctive features given by Mathews 

 (Birds Austr., Vol. II,, p. 261, 1912) for his D. epomojyhora 

 mccormicki. These were labelled "D. exulans, 4th year," 

 while D. e. epomophora Lesson from Campbell Island 



