CAMPBELL ISLAND ROYAL ALBATROS. 
Obs. In the extremely old male specimen exhibited the tail is entirely white ; there 
is an unusual amount of white on the upper surface of the wings, all the coverts being 
more or less margined with it ; and the scapulars are obscurely marbled with greyish- 
brown. The feathers composing the mantle are faintly vermiculated. 
Adults obtained off the Otago Coast, the young from Campbell Island. 
As diagnostic features Buller noted : “Dtomedea regia is appreciably larger 
than the common species, with a far more powerful bill, which differs further 
in having a broad black line along the cutting edge of the upper mandible. 
In D. exulans the bare eyelids are greenish-purple ; in D. regia the eyelids 
from youth to maturity are jet black.” 
In the Trans. New Zeal, hist., Vol. XXXI., p. 31, Buller again noted : 
“One fine D. regia readily distinguishable on the wing from D. exulans by 
the splash of white on the humeral flexure.” 
There can be little doubt that the adult birds described by Buller are 
merely the very old stage of D. e. rothschildi, while the young appear to 
agree better with the form next described. The nestling and egg came from 
Campbell Island, but his descriptions and facts seem to be mixed up. 
In the British Museum there are four specimens obtained on Campbell 
Island, one just losing its down, the other with only remnants of down adhering, 
and two adults. These all agree to the most minute detail in coloration, and 
all have white tails, and none have barrings on the interscapular region. There 
is also a specimen younger still, in down ; while at the Rothschild Museum 
there is another fine series of Campbell Island birds which agree. 
McCormick procured two birds on Enderby Island, and these birds, though 
having the white coloration (including the tail) of the Campbell Island form 
have the scapulars cross-barred, only the longer ones having black tips ; the 
olecranal patch is larger, and the wing-coloration is distinctly lighter, being 
brown, while the Campbell Island bird has the wing black-brown, almost 
black. For this form I propose the name 
Diomedea epomopTiora mccormichi, subsp n., 
as an indication of respect for Dr. McCormick, who made such a splendid 
collection of sea-birds in the pioneer Antarctic Expedition of 1840, and whose 
beautiful labelling is a delight to refer to. 
It is reported that this Enderby Island colony of D. e. mccormichi has been 
exterminated, but there still exists a colony of D. “ regia ” on Adam Island, 
Auckland Islands. 
It should be pointed out that the D. regia figured and described in the 
Monograph of the Petrels is Diomedea epomophora mccormichi. I have described 
this bird as a subspecies of D. epomophora and not of D. exulans, as I find 
that the general bill-characters of the two species are different, and that 
D. e. mccormichi agrees with D. e. epomophora in that feature. 
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