THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
not seen reached by any specimen, while Smith’s measurement of the wing of 
13.75 inches for the Atlantic bird seems palpably wrong. 
I find that all the specimens from the Australian and New Zealand seas 
are larger and have grey faces, while the bill is also stouter. 
Salvin in the Ihis 1888, p. 360, admitted, “ and though they are rather larger 
and (especially the New Zealand specimens) have stronger bills” — yet lumped 
the Atlantic and Pacific forms. 
It should be noted that Gould remarked that this bird was abundant in 
Tasmanian seas ; in view of the discovery of the next race, it seems possible 
that this bird has a Tasmanian islet breeding-resort, at present unknown. 
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