. Une histoire générale des oiseaux . pureté; un spécimen de ceci a été vu dans les mers du Sud, en lat. 37. Fin décembre. A.—Albatros de la Chine, PL. enl. 963. Cet oiseau est entièrement brun grisâtre; le bec et les jambes sont de couleur paille pâle.—habite la Chine et mesure environ deux pieds et demi de longueur. 3 — ALBATROS À NEZ JAUNE—PL. Clxix. Diomedea Chlororhynchos, Ind. Orn. ii. 790. GM. I.. Lin 568. Lin. TRANS., XII. 490.Albatros à nez jaune, Genèse Syn. V. 309. pl. xciv. LONGUEUR trois pieds, largeur sept. Le projet de loi environ quatre incheslong, noir, modérément pustueux, et accroché à la fin, le jaune de l'OMS

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. A general history of birds . purity; a specimen of this was seen in theSouth Seas, in lat. 37. the end of December. A.—Albatros de la Chine, Pl. enl. 963. This bird is wholly greyish brown; bill and legs pale straw-colour.—Inhabits China, and is about two feet and a half in length. 3 — YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS—Pl. clxix. Diomedea Chlororhynchos, Ind. Orn. ii. 790. Gm. Lin. i. 568. Lin. Trans, xii. 490.Yellow-nosed Albatross, Gen. Syn. v. 309. pl. xciv. LENGTH three feet, breadth seven. The bill about four incheslong, black, moderately stout, and hooked at the end, the upperridge yellow the whole length, quite to the tip; the base of the * As few of the Voyagers have described the birds to which they have given names, wecannot always be clear in respect to the Species meant; and therefore not quite certain itwas the one here described. Chocolate Albatrosses were mentioned by Forster; but notobserved by him, except among the ice.—Voy. i. 258. Perhaps the Albatross with a whitebeak.—Park. Voy. 83, 84 ? MO. ^X ALBATROSS. 53 under mandible is also yellow; irides brown ; the bead grey ; betweenthe bill and eye an obscure black spot; just over the eye a duskyone; hind part of the neck dusky, the lower white; back, scapularsand wings, dusky blue black; rump and under parts of the bodywhite ; tail dusky ; legs yellowish white ; the fore part of them andthe webs dusky. We believe that the plumage in this species variesas in the Gulls; for in a drawing of one, the whole head, neck, andunder parts were pure white. This is met with in the southernatmosphere, from 30 to 60 degrees, all round the Pole.f One, takenoff the Cape of Good Hope, furnished the above description. Inhabits the South Seas without the Tropics, and like theWandering Species, rarely flies above five or six feet above thesurface of the water. At least four Species of Albatrosses breed on the Islands of Tris-tan da Cunha. Among others the Yellow-nosed builds its solitarynest in some sheltered corner;

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