Order TUBINARES. Tube-nosed Swimmers.

Family DIOMEDEIDAE. Albatrosses.

DIOMEDEA Linnaeus.

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_.)


Family PROCELLARIIDAE. Fulmars & Shearwaters.