CAMPBELL ISLAJ^D EOYAi ALBATROS. 
The history of this bird is one of the most interesting of this group. Solander 
met with and carefully differentiated this form, as here given : — 
Diomedea Exulans var. 
Habitat in Oceano austr. Lat, austr, XXXVII : 10 Long. occ. CLXXI ; 5 (Octob. 2, 
1769) Latit. austr. XX XV : 8 Longit. Occident CLXXXVIII : 30 (Jan. 6, 1770) 
Lat. austr. XXXIX : 17 Longit. occ. CCIV : 6 (Apr. 11, 1770) 
Varietas major 
Tota avis alba, exceptis Alis supra nigro-maculatis. Remiges enim 'primores basi 
tantummodo alba', secundaria' extra medium nigra', uti & tectrices equibus 
superiores solummodo nebulis nigris irrorata' 
Spatium inter alas expansas 10 ped 7 unc. 
Pondus 28 libr 
Afterwards it was again described by Lesson as D. e'pomo'phom and this 
name has been consistently neglected though the diagnosis shows that it 
indisputably refers to this bird. Buffer, in the Tmns. New Zeal Ink. 1890, 
Vol. XXIIL, p. 234, 1891, again redescribed it as D. regia, under which name 
it has been commonly known. 
Though constantly confused with D. exulans and its subspecies, it appears 
to be separable in its adult plumage by the shape of the bill. In the Monograph 
there is a note that if D. exulans had another stage with the back and mantle 
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