CAMPBELL ISLAND ROYAL ALBATROS. 
I have reproduced these extracts to show the fallacy of accepting sea- 
made observations as having any finality, and I have therefore considered 
all such as unworthy of incorporation, when endeavouring to trace the fife- 
histories of birds of this group. 
BuUer, under the heading of Diomedea regia, in his Supplement, p. 141 , 
writes : “I can only ask, as I have done before, what is that divinely implanted 
faculty which enables this bird, after wanderings that defy calculations, and 
perhaps encircle the globe ”... I have quoted this to emphasize that last 
phrase, as it seems quite contrary to the facts, that this or any other species 
should “ encircle the globe.” 
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