DIOMEDEIDA. 753 
THE BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS. 
DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS, Boie. 
On July oth 1897, an exhausted individual of this species was 
captured on the Streetly Hall Farm, near Linton, in Cambridge- 
shire, and was sent by Mr. S. Owen Webb to Mr. Travis, a 
taxidermist at Bury St. Edmunds (Ibis 1897, p. 625). Through 
the good offices of the Rev. Julian Tuck, Col. E. A. Butler and 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, the specimen was sent to London for the 
inspection of Mr. Salvin and others. Mr. Southwell has neatly 
remarked that after all the species was only revisiting the haunts of 
its remote ancestors, for the bones of an Albatross of medium size, 
from the Suffolk “‘red crag” near Ipswich, have been described and 
figured by Mr. R. Lydekker. 
For some years past it has been an established fact that birds 
of this species occasionally reached the Northern Atlantic. On 
June 15th 1878, Capt. David Gray, of the ‘ Eclipse’ whaler, when 
in lat. 80° 11’ N., and long. 4° E., obtained a Black-browed 
Albatross, which is now in the Peterhead Museum; while in the 
log of the ‘Eclipse’ for May 2nd 1885 there is the record of a 
bird baving been seen in 74° N., which, considering the experience 
of its observers, may fairly be assigned to the same species. In 1893 
a Black-browed Albatross was shot near Mygganaes, in the Feroes, 
and from a long account given by Mr. Knud Andersen, it appeared 
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