Order PROCELLARIIFORMES 
No. 123 
Family DIOMEDEIDM. 
PHCEBETRIA FUSOA CAMPBELLI. 
AUSTRALIAN SOOTY ALBATROS. 
Phcebetria ftjsca CAMPBELLI, subsp. n. ; Australian seas ; Type no. 5578 in my collection. 
Diomedea fulginosa and 
Phoebefria fuliginosa of AustraKan authors generally. 
Phoebetria palpebrata fusca (not Hilsenberg) Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 206, 
1912. 
DiSTRiBBTioiir. AustraKan seas. 
Adult. General colour above and below sooty-brown, sKghtly darker on the top of the 
head ; blackish on the lores and above and behind the eyes ; wings and tail 
blackish-brown ; shafts of the tail-feathers and primaries straw-coloured. Short 
feathers round the eye, interrupted in front, white ; bill black, the groove on 
the lower mandible long and deep, and filled with a yefiow skin. Total length 
790 mm. ; cuhnen (exp.) 115, wing 482, tail 250, tarsus 73. 
Immature, Nest, Egg, and Breeding-season. Unknown. 
I HAVE not attempted to guess any synonymy of this and the preceding bird, 
as at first I concluded the former might be the common Australian form. It 
certainly was the New Zealand breeding bird, and was accepted for P. fuliginosa 
by such authorities as Campbell and Hall. Gould had however figured the 
present bird, and the majority of the early specimens procured and at 
present in Museums referable to this species, are labelled Australian seas. 
I am therefore including both. 
As I have noted, this species may breed on the Crozets, in which case that 
would probably be the breeding-locality of Hilsenberg’s D. fusca, as that name 
was given to a bird obtained in the Mozambique Channel. We know that 
a breeding-station is Gough Island ; and as we have not found the eastern 
breeding-stations, I am simply recognising an Eastern and Western form, 
the latter being larger in aU its dimensions. 
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