104. DIOMEDEA EXULANS, Linn. 



(WANDERING ALBATROS.) 



(Plate 89.) 



The Man of War Bird, Albin, N. H. Birds, III., p. 76, PI. 81 (1740). 



The Albatross, Edwards, N. H. Birds, II., p. 88, PL 88 (1747). 



UATbatros, Briss., Orn., VI., p. 126 (1760) ; Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., X., p. 173, 



(1786). 

 Diomedea exulans, Linn., Syst. Nat., I., p. 214 (1766) ; Gould, Birds Austr., VII., 



PI. 38 (1844) ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 427 (1865) ; Giglioli, Faun. 



Vertebr. Oceano, p. 49 (1870) ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 289 (1873) ; 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer., II., p. 347 (1884) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 441 (1896); Sharpe, Rep. 



" Southern Cross," Aves, p. 160 (1902) ; Wilson, Nat. Antarctic Exped., 



II., Aves, p. 108 (1907). 

 VAlbatros du Cap de Bonne Esperance, D'Aubent., PI. Enl., X., PI. 237. 

 Wandering Albatross, Pennant, Arctic Zool., II., p. 506 ; Lath., Gen. Syn., III., 



pt. I., p. 304 (1785). 

 Chocolate Albatross, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. I., p. 308 (1785). 

 Diomedea spadicea, Gm., Syst. Nat., L, p. 568 (1788) ; Lath., Ind. Orn., II., p. 790 



(1790). 

 Diomedea exhulans, Lesson, Man. d'Orn., II., p. 350 (1828). 

 Diomedea epomophera, Lesson, Man. d'Orn., II., p. 351 (1828). 

 Diomedea albatrus (nee Pall.), Forster, Descr. An., p. 27 (1844). 

 Diomedea adusta, Tschudi, J. f. O., 1856, p. 157 ; Bp., Consp., II., p. 185 (1855). 



Ad. Alba, notseo albo, schistaceo vel brunnescenti-nigro vermiculatim transfasciato : 

 pileo albo, plaga nigricanti-brunnea verticali plerumque notato : cauda alba, nigro 

 terminata : gastrseo albo, lineis nigricantibus transversim fasciato : ala nigricante, 

 maculis paucis albis notata, regione olecranali latiore alba distinguenda. 

 Pull, duvedine grisescente indutus. 



The history of the Wandering Albatros is difficult to relate, owing to 

 the fact that early observers failed to recognise more than one species, whereas 



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