THE BIEDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
when it was brought to light by the researches of Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, 
working upon his invaluable Index Animalium, 
Linne based his species upon Edward’s account, and as that writer said 
his specimen was supposed to have come from the Cape seas, we can accept 
the South Atlantic as the type-locality of Linne’s species. The chief 
synonym seems to be D. spadicea Gmelin {Syst. Nat, p. 568, 1789), described 
as follows : — 
D. spadicea, fronte, orbitis, mento, gula, tectricibus alarum inferioribus, abdomine 
pedibusque albis, rostro ochroleuco. 
Deest broun [sic] or Chocolate Albatross. Cook it, 2, p. 116, 150. Forster it. 1, p. 258. 
Lath. syn. III., 1, p. 308, n. 2. 
Habitat in maris australis latitudine 37°, fuliginosa major. 
Irides fuscae ; margo alarum superior intus albus ; abdomen albicans ; cauda ahs 
aequahs longitudine, pedes ex caerulescente albi ; ungues albi. 
This is simply a translation of Latham’s account, quoted by Gmehn, which 
reads : — 
Deep brown, or chocolate Albatross, Cook’s Voy., II., p. 116, 150. Lev. Mus. 
Size larger than the Sooty Albatross. The bill in this bird of a yeUowish-white ; 
irides brown ; forepart of the head, round the eye, chin, and throat, white ; the plumage 
in general of a fine deep chocolate-colour, the neck and under parts palest ; the inner ridge 
of the wing, and under wing-coverts, white ; and the belly inclines much to white ; the 
tail is short, rounded in shape ; that and the wings equal in length ; the legs blueish- 
white ; claws white. 
This bird varies in having more or less white about the head, and in a greater or less 
degree of purity. Seen in the South Seas, in lat. 37, the end of December. 
This refers to the young, or rather a stage of plumage of this species which 
was again described by Tschudi as Diomedea adusta {Journ. fiir Ornith., 1856, 
p. 157). 
The best course appears to be to accept as the type-locality of D, exulans, 
D. spadicea Gmelin, and D. adusta Tschudi, the Cape seas or South Atlantic 
Ocean. There are no other synonyms of this species, as D. epoinopTiom of 
Lesson cannot be referred here. This species was described in the Ann. Sci. 
Nat, Paris, 1st ser., Vol. VI., p. 95, 1825, as follows : — 
Albatros a epaulettes (Diomedsea epomophora Nob). 
Taille moindre que celle du precedent. Le corps, le cou, la tete, le ventre, la queue, 
le dos et le croupion d’un blanc de neige ; les plumes qui couvrent les ailes, d’un noir vif ; 
deux larges taches blanches en losange sur le coude de chaque aile ; le bee est jaunatre. 
Se recontrent plus habituellement vers le quarantieme degre. 
This description has given much trouble to workers, Bonaparte ques- 
tionably referring it to the synonymy of D. hrachyura Temm. {Consp. Gen. Av., 
Vol. II., p. 184, 1857), and also admitting it (p. 185) as a questionable vahd 
species following Tschudi’s determination. Coues (Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Philad. 
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