NEW ZEALAND LIGHT-MANTLED SOOTY ALBATROS. 
This species was first met with in lat. 47 south, but was afterwards observed 
throughout the Southern Ocean within the antarctic circle. It was called by our sailors 
the Quaker, from its brown plumage. 
This description seems to have been drawn up from Cook’s and Forster’s 
accounts with access to the drawings in the Banksian collection, though it 
is just possible that Latham had access to Forster’s specimen. In any case 
there can be no doubt that Latham was dependent on Cook and Forster for 
his knowledge of the bird. In the Banksian drawings, preserved in the British 
Museum, No. 102 is a finished painting of a bird with a uniformly-coloured 
dark bill showing an indistinct groove ; dark head, wings and tail, with grey 
mantle, back and breast. At the foot is inscribed : “ G. Forster delin. 1773, ad 
vivum in mari Antarctico. Diomedea palpebrata die 20 jan. Anni. 1773.” 
When Gmelin {Syst. Nat., p. 568, 1789) latinised Latham’s Synopsis, he 
included : — 
Diomedea fuUginosa : 
D. fusca, capite, rostro, cauda, remigibus et unguibus ex fusco atris, area oculorum 
alba. 
Sooty or brown Albatross. Forst, it. I, p. 91, Lath. Syn. Ill, I, p. 309, n. 4. 
Albatross with a white eyebrow. Cook it. I., p. 38. 
Habitat in maris australis latitudine 47° et omni circulo antarctico, anseris magnitudine, 
3 pene pedes longa. 
Irides fiavescentes ; remiges rectricesque scapo albae ; hae acuminatae ; pedes ex 
fuscescente pallide plumbei.” 
In Froriep’s Notizen for 1822, Vol. III., No. 5 (No. 49), p. 74, Hilsenberg 
described Dioynedea fusca (as follows) : — 
Der ganze Leib, die Flugel rmd der Schwanz sind uberall dxmkel graulichbraun. 
Uber f des Auges sind von einem schonen weissen fast runden Streifen umgeben, die imtere 
Kinnlade des Schnabels wird von ihren Hintertheile bis fast zur Spitxe mit eiuer schoner 
weissen Haut durchzogen die nur lose auf dem Horne aufsitzt. Augen und Ffisse wie bei 
D. exulans. Fliigelausbrietung 5 Fuss 10 Zoll ; Lange 2 Fuss 5 ZoU. der Schnabel 34 ZoU, 
der Fuss 7 Zoll 3 Linien.” 
Canal von Mozambique. 
for a bird obtained in the Mozambique Channel. This entry had been over- 
looked by ornithologists until this year, when Mr. C. Davies Sherborn generously 
brought it to my notice, and I used it in the Nov. Zool. (Vol. XVIII., p. 206, 
1912) to replace D. fuliginosa Gmefin 1789, which I consider a synonym of 
Dio7nedea palpebrata Forster, 1785. For once again ornithologists have to 
thank Mr. Sherborn for indicating the existence of a monograph on Albatroses 
published by Forster in the Mein. Math. Phys., Paris, Vol. X., 1785, where 
(p. 571) we get the following beautiful description : — 
L Albatros a paupieres blanches {Diomedea palpebrata) est de la grandeur d’une oie. Sa 
figure est plus leste que celle des deux autres Albatros. II a six pieds & sept pouoes 
d envergure, & deux pieds sept pouces de longueur du bout du bee jusqu’a I’extremite 
des pieds. 
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