Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed Swimmers.
Family DIOMEDEIDÆ. Albatrosses.
DIOMEDEA Linnæus.
35. Black-footed Albatross.
Diomedea nigripes (Aud.).
West Coast of Vancouver Island. (Fannin.) Rare at Queen
Charlotte Islands. (Rev. J. H. Keen.) One specimen taken near
Nanaimo, June 3th, 1904.
36. Short-tailed Albatross.
Diomedea albatrus (Pall.)
In April, 1894, I found this species quite common in the Pacific
Ocean, near Cape Beale.
Tolerably common on both coasts of Vancouver Island, but more abundant on the West Coast; a few have been taken in the straits off Victoria Harbour. (Fannin.)