Order PB0CELLARIIF0RME8 
No. 114. 
Family DIOMEDEIDM. 
DIOMEDEA EXULANS EOTHSOHILDI. 
AUSTKALIAN WANDERING ALBATROS. 
(Plate 95.)* 
Diomedea exulans rothschildi, subsp. n, ; Type no. 276 in my collection ; Australian 
seas. 
Diomedea exulans Bennett, Wander. New South Wales, Vol. I., p. 44, 1834 ; Gould, 
Birds Austr., Vol. VII., pi. 38, 1844 ; Bennett, Gath. Naturahst, p. 72, 1863 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 427, 1865 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 289, 
1873 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 202, 1877 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 23, 1888 ; BuUer, Birds New Zeal, 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 189, 1888 ; 
Reischek, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1888, Vol. XXI., p. 126, 1889 ; Buller, ib. 
1890, Vol. XXIII., p. 230, 1891 ; id., ib. 1891, Vol. XXIV., p. 69, 1892 ; id., ib. 
1892, Vol. XXV., p. 76, 1893 ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 441, 
1896 ; North, Birds County Cumber., p. 115, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 95, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 921, 1901 ; Buller, Suppl, 
Birds New Zeal., Vol. I., p. 128, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 95, 
1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 19, 1908 ; Waite, Subant. Isl. New Zeal., 
p. 566, 1909 ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, p. 309, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 185, 1910. 
Diomedea exulans exulans Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 205, 1912. 
Distribution. Austrahan seas (Antipodes Island, New Zealand ; breeding). 
Adult male. General colour above white with wavy cross-bars of ash-brown, more 
narrowly and faintly on the hind-neck, broader and more pronounced on the 
back and upper tail-coverts ; the scapulars white, vermiculated and broadly 
tipped with brown, more especially on the outer webs ; short feathers of the 
humerals black on the outer webs, and vermiculated on the inner ones with ash- 
brown, the longer ones black with white on the basal portion ; olecranal feathers 
white, some of the longer ones tipped with black ; lesser, median, and greater 
wing-coverts black with white bases hke the marginal coverts round the bend of 
the wing ; primary-coverts and quiUs black, the latter with flattened straw- 
coloured shafts and pale brown on the inner webs towards the base, this portion 
of the web being white on the inner primaries ; tail white at the base, dark brown 
at the tip, the white approaches much nearer the tip on the inner web than on 
*The Plate is lettered Diomedea exulans. 
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