111. DIOMEDEA MELANOPHRYS, Bote. 



(BLACK-EYEBKOWED ALBATROS.) 

 (Plate 97.) 



Diomedea melanophrys, Boie in Temminck's, PL Col., V., PI. 456 (1838) ; Gould, Birds 

 Austr., VII., PL 43 (1844); Cones, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 181, 188; 

 Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 292 (1873) ; Sharpe, Phil. Trans., Vol. 168, p. 146 

 (1879) ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer., II., p. 357 

 (1884); Buller, Birds New Zeal., Ed. 2, II., p. 198 (1888); Salvin, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., XXV, p. 447 (1896). 



Diomedea gilliana, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 181, 188; Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. 

 Birds, p. 52 (1887). 



Thalassarche melanophrys, Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 57 (1870). 



Supra nigricanti-brunnea, interscapulio schistaceo : uropygio et supracaudalibus albis : 

 pedibus flavicantibus : rostro flavo : pileo albo : fascia supraoculari nigra : cauda 

 schistaceo-cinerea. 



The Black-eyebrowed Albatros is found all over the Southern Oceans, and, according 

 to Layard and Andersson, frequents the Bays round the Cape of Good Hope and has 

 also been recorded from Walfisch Bay and Pondoland. Numbers are brought by the 

 native fishermen into the market at Cape Town, where they are sold at threepence 

 each, and are esteemed by the lower classes as an article of food (Sharpe ed. Layard, 

 Birds 8. Africa, p. 772). 



Mr. Eagle Clarke regards the occurrence of D. melanophrys on Gough Island as 

 somewhat doubtful, though Mr. Wilton records it as abundant off the island 

 on April 21st, 1904 (Ibis, 1905, p. 265). The species was not mentioned in Professor 

 Verrill's list of birds procured and noted by Mr. Comer, and on Tristan da 

 Cunha some doubts as to its appearance must be entertained, although Captain 

 Hutton in 1865 gives Captain Carmichael as an authority for its breeding there 

 (Ibis, 1865, p. 283). 



Mr. T. J. Parkin procured examples of D. melanophrys, among other 

 Petrels, in Lat. 39° 51' S., Long. 80° 49' E. (Bull Brit. Orn. Club, X., p. cvi., 1900), and 



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