Order PR0CELLARIIF0RME8 
Family DIOMEDEID/E. 
No. 122. 
PHCEBETRIA PALPEBRATA HUTTONI. 
NEW ZEALAND LIGHT-MANTLED SOOTY ALBATROS. 
(Plate* 101.)* 
Phcebetria PALPEBRATA HUTTONI, subsp. n. ; Type no. 5,959 in my collection ; New 
Zealand seas. 
Phcebetria palpebrata palpebrata (not Eorster) Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 206, 
1912. 
Distribution. Australian waters (Antipodes Island, Auckland Islands, Campbell 
Island, and Macquarie Island, New Zealand, breeding). 
Adult male. Mantle pale ash-grey, with lighter edges to some of the feathers ; wings, 
scapulars, and upper tail-coverts dark greyish-brown ; primary-quiUs blackish- 
brown on the outer webs and at the tips, with white shafts for the greater 
part of their length, becoming black at the tips, the inner webs somewhat paler ; 
tail blackish-brown, the shafts white ; head, sides of face and throat sooty-black ; 
under- surface ashy-brown, somewhat darker on the lower- throat and under tail- 
coverts ; axillaries shghtly darker than the under surface of the body ; under 
wing-coverts pale brown with dark shaft- hnes ; the short feathers encirchng the 
eye have the frontal portion black, and the hinder part white ; “ Bill black, 
groove on mandible blue ; iris hazel ; tarsi and feet pink ” (Waite). Total length 
820 mm. ; culmen 114, wing 525, tail 28, tarsus 78. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Nestling. Covered entirely with pale ashy-grey down. 
Nest. Placed in crevices in the rock. 
Egg. Clutch, one ; whitish, round the larger end covered with very tiny spots of reddish 
which merge together at the apex ; axis 103 mm., diameter 66 (collected 
November 4th, 1894). 
Breeding-season. November to February (Macquarie Island, Campbell) (Campbell Island, 
Waite). 
This would appear to be the Diomedea fuliginosa and Phcebetria fuliginosa 
of New Zealand writers generally, but whether this can be written regarding 
Australian authors or not cannot now be decided. I would fain have considered 
that Australian ornithologists had called the wholly Sooty Albatros by that 
name, but HaU considered the Kerguelen bird to be typical P. fuliginosa, and 
that belongs to this species. 
* The Plate is lettered PhcAetria palpebraia 
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