$8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed SwmMERS. 



Family VII. DIOMEDEID.^- Albatrosses. 



XXIX. DIOMEDEA Linn^us. 1758. 



81. Black-footed Albatross. 



Diomedea nigripes Audubon. 1839. 



Off the coast o'f British Columbia to Lat. 51° N. {Nelson.} 

 Common as far north as Lat. 52° N. in the open sea. A few- 

 reported 300 miles south of Unalaska. (Dr. Bean.) West coast 

 of Vancouver Island. {Fannin.) 



Breeding Notes. — I have no doubt but that this bird breeds 

 in some locality among the Aleutian Islands, for it is found there 

 from the early part of May to late October. {Turner.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One taken about 100 miles northwest of the north end of 

 Vancouver Island, B.C., July 1891, by Dr. G. M. Dawson. 



82. Short-tailed Albatross. 



Diomedea albatrus Pall. 1769. 



From Lat. 50° N. in the North Pacific, this fine bird becomes more 

 or less numerous and thence north replaces the preceding species," 

 it is found throughout the Aleutian Islands and is numerous 

 in Behring Sea and extends north to Behring Strait. {Nelson.) 

 From Lat. 52° N., this species increases in numbers as we go north,, 

 but the mouth of Cook's Inlet and the Barren Islands seem to be 

 ' its favorite resort. {Dr. Bean.) Tolerably common on both coasts- 

 of Vancouver Island, but more abundant on the west coast ; have 

 been taken in Victoria Harbour. {Fannin.) 



Mr. W. Spreadborough found one dead on the beach at 

 Esquimault, Vancouver Island, June 4th, 1893. 



Breeding Notes. — Turner believed that this species breeds in 

 the neighbourhood of Cape Newenham, near Bristol Bay, Alaska^ 

 as he saw numbers of them there in June, flying and sitting on 

 rocks. 



