914 Birds of Celebes: Diomedeidae. 
Briiggemann, and Mr. Biittikofer informs us that there are two specimens 
(cT & 2) of this species from the same traveller in the Leyden Museum. 
Musschenbroek informed Meyer (7) that he got a specimen of this species 
between Manado and Kwandang in the Minahassa , but he himself elsewhere 
(N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, 379) speaks of a Procellaria leucoptera, and the 
name seems to relate to the same specimen; we cannot tell which species is 
really concerned in this case. 
The Streaked Shearwater is a rather rare species, and but little is known 
of its habits. By its strongly graduated wedge tail it belongs to the same group 
as P. cuneatus and chlororhynchus, but it is easily recognised by its larger size 
and much larger bill, and by its face and fore part of head being white, streaked 
with blackish. 
“Procellaria leucoptera” van Musschenbroek, N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, 
XXXVI, 379. As is mentioned above, Musschenbroek under this name 
mentions a bird obtained by him in Celebes, which seems to be the same as 
that recorded by Meyer after his information as Puffinua leucomelas (Ibis 1879, 
145). Musschenbroek announced that he was bringing an example to Europe. 
We do not know whether this specimen still exists or not, but Mr. Biittikofer 
states (in lit.) that there is neither Froc. leucoptera nor Puffinus leucomelas from 
V. Musschenbroek in the Leyden Museum. Schlegel has recorded a Procellaria 
leucoptera from Ternate, but Mr. Salvin includes this in the synonymy of his 
P. heraldica of Chesterfield Is., W. Pacific Ocean. Its occurrence in Celebes 
appears highly probable, but there is at present no satisfactory evidence that it 
has ever been found there. 
FAMILY DIOMEDEIDAE. 
GENUS DIOMEDEA L. 
391. DIOMEDEA sp. 
Albatros sp. 
? “IJiomedea brachyura” van Musschenbroek, N. T. Ned. Ind. 1876, XXXVI, 379. 
Musschenbroek here announces that he shot an Albatros in Celebes, 
but afterw'ards lost the skin. Such birds are of course very likely to appear 
occasionally off the coast of Celebes, hrom the distribution of the species given 
in Mr. Salvin’s catalogue (Cat. B. 1896, XXV, 440—448) it would appear that 
D. albatrus 7 D. eamlans L. and D. niyrpes And. are the species more likely 
to occur there than the others; of these J). nkp-ipes may be recognised by its 
smaller size (wing 470 — 546 mm; after Baird, Brewer & Bidgway), by its 
uniform dusky plumage and black legs and feet, P. albatrus by its white plumage 
(wLen adult), except the tail and remiges which are slaty-browm, and straw- 
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