Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 
No. 57. 
Family DIOMEDEIDM. 
PHCEBETRIA FUSCA. 
(CAMPBELLI.) 
SOOTY ALBATROSS. 
(Plate 41.) 
Phcebetria Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. v., 1852 (1853). Type (by orginal designation) : 
Diomedea fuliginosa Gmelin —Diomedea palpelrata Forster. 
Diomedea fusca Hilsenberg, in Froriep’s Notizen, Vol. III., No. 5 (49), p. 74, Sept. 1822 : 
Mozambique Channel. 
Phcebetria fusca campbelli Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 304, Sept. 20th, 1912 : Australian 
Seas. 
diomedea fuliginosa Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxvi., Vol. VII., pi. 44, Dec. 1st, 1848. 
Phcebetria fuliginosa Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 441, Dec. 1865 ; Salvin, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 453, 1896 (pref. Dec. 16th, 1895) ; Godman, Monogr. Petrels, 
p. 363, pi. 103, May 1910. 
Phcebetria fusca campbelli Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 304, Sept. 20th, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 43, Dec. 1913 ; id., Syst. Av. Australas., p. 133, 1927. 
Phcebetria fusca Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 43, Dec. 1913 ; Mathews and Iredale, Manual 
Birds Austr., p. 48, March 9th, 1921. 
Distribution. Seas of the southern part of Australia. 
Adult. General colour above and below sooty-brown, slightly 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-colour ; short feathers round the eye, 
interrupted in front, white; bill black, the groove on the lower mandible long and deep 
and filled with a yellow skin. Total length 790 mm.: culmen 115, wing 482, tail 250, 
tarsus 73. 
The sexes are alike. 
Immature, nest, eggs and breeding-season not described. 
This Sooty Albatross has been recorded by many observers at sea, near the 
southern coast of Australia. 
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