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3. Cepphus carbo Pall. 

 Sooty Guillemot. 

 Cepphus carbo Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. II. 1826, 350. 



[B 728, C 633, R 762, C 873.J 



No evidence of its occurrence in North America. {Cf. Stejn. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. VII. 1884, pp. 225-227.) 



Family LARID^. 



Genus CREAGRUS Bon. 



Creagrus Bon. Naumannia, 1854, 211. Type, Larus furcatus 

 Neboux. 



4. Creagrus furcatus (Neb.). 

 Swallow-tailed Gull. 



Larus furcatus Neb. Voy. 'Venus,' Atlas, pi. 10 (1846). 

 Creagrus furcatus Bonap. Naumannia, 1854, 213. 

 [B 679, C SS9, R 678, C 791.] 

 In all probability erroneously accredited to North America. At 

 least nine examples are now known, — the type, said to be from 

 Monterey, Cal., three from the Galapagos, one from the coast of Peru, 

 and four from Malpelo Island (Lat 3° 59' N., Long. 8i°34j' W.). 



Family DIOMEDEID^. 



4.1. Diomedea exulans Linn. 

 Wandering Albatross. 



Diomedea exulans Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1. 1758, 132. 

 [B— , C— R-,C-.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern oceans ; said to have occurred in Tampa 

 Bay, Florida, and off coast of Washington. (Cf. CouES, Auk, II. 

 Oct. 1885, 387 ; XII. April, 1895, 178 ; Ridgway, Man. N. Am. B. 

 i'887, 51. The Florida record is open to question, and the others 

 are unsatisfactory.) 



