AVIFAUNA OF LATSAN, ETC. 



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To make the matter quite clear, I herewith quote the two headings of the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds ' :— 



1. DlOMEDEA NIGRIPES, Aud. 

 D. nigripes, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 445 (1896). 



D. chinemis, Rotlisch. Avif. Laysan, pt. i. p. 55 (1893) (non D. chinenHs, Temminck !). 



2. DlOMEDEA IMMTJTABILIS, Rothsch. 

 D. immuiabilis, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv. p. 446 (1896). 



It is thus evident that only two species of Diomedea are known to occur in the seas of 

 the Hawaiian possessions, and that the true D. albatrus (the adult of D. chinensis, Temminck, 

 1820) has never heen taken there. 



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