_Diomedea nigripes_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris (3), 8, 1896, p. 51 (Agrigan); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 68 (Marianne); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 1, 1901, p. 22 (Marianas); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 70 (Mariannes); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 268 (Guam?); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 32 (Marriane); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 1, 1931, p. 43 (Marshalls); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 188 (Marianas); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3rd ed., 1942, p. 210 (Marianas); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 5 (Marshalls). _Geographic range._--North Pacific Ocean. Breeds on islands northwest of Hawaii. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Agrigan. _Characters._--A large oceanic bird with sooty-brown coloration; darker on nape, wings and tail; lighter on forehead, sides of head, and abdomen; area surrounding bill whitish; tail whitish at base; bill dark reddish-brown; feet black. _Remarks._--This albatross has been recorded from waters near the Mariana Islands. Quoy and Gaimard (1824:145) observed "albatross" between the Mariana and the Hawaiian Islands. The only actual specimens obtained from the islands were reported on by Oustalet (1896:51). These were eight Black-footed Albatrosses which were taken on the coast of Agrigan by Marche in December, 1888, and January, 1889. Oustalet gives the following measurements: total length, 680-785; wing, 485-525; tail, 180-225; tarsus, 80-90; culmen, 108-125. The specimens are apparently in the Paris Museum. Peters (1931:43) lists the Marshall Islands as part of the range of _D. nigripes_. In the period of the late war Gleise (1945:221) observed eight Short-tailed Albatrosses (_D. albatrus_ Pallas) "off Saipan." Specimens of _D. albatrus_ have not been taken in Micronesia. According to Austin (1948b:32) this albatross "is now virtually extinct," and this record may be questioned. =Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus= Lesson Wedge-tailed Shearwater _Puffinus chlororhynchus_ Lesson, Traité d'Ornith., 8, 1931, p. 613. (Type is from Shark's Bay, West Australia.) _Puffinus sphenurus_ Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 299 (Mortlock). _Puffinus chlororhynchus_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 80 (Luganor?); Godman, Monogr. Petrels, pt. 2, 1908, p. 88 (Carolines); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 33 (Luganor or Ruk?). _Puffinus pacificus chlororhynchus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 187 (Lukunor or Truk?, Kusaie); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 209 (Lukunor or Truk?, Kusaie).