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THE TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS — TUBINARES. 



Thalassogeron culminatus. 



THE YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



Diomcdca adminat.a, Gould, P. /. S. July 25, lSi3, 107 ; Birds Austral. VII. pi. 41. — Gray, Gen. 



B. 1S49, pi. 179. — CouES, Pr. riiilad. Acad. 1866, 183. — Stkeets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 7, 1877, 31. — Kidgw. Noin. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 702. 

 Diomedm chlororhun.ckos, AuD. Orn. Biog. Y. 1839, 326; B. Am. VII. 1844, 196. — Lawr, in 



Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 822 (excl. syn.). — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 632. 



Hab. " Southern, Indian, and South Pacific Oceans " (Oould, 1. c.) ; casual off the coast of 

 Oregon (Audubon). 



Sp. Char. Adult : Head and neck light ash-gray, darker immediately in front of the eyes, paler 

 on the throat, and fading into white on the lower surface of the body ; lower eyelid white. Back 

 brownish pluniln'uus, lading gradually into the light ashy of the nape, growing gradually darker 



Adult. 



toward the scapulars, which, with the entire wings, are uniform dark brownish slate, or dusky ; 

 rump and upper tuil-(;f)verts white ; tail hoary slate-gray, the shafts yellowish white. Shafts of 

 primaries straw-yellow, changing to brown terminally. Bill grayish lilack, the culnien (abruptly) 

 and the lower part of the mandible yellowish white; legs and feet dull brownish. ^ Younrf: 

 " Head and neck dark gray ;" the bill " almost uniform brownish black, with only an indication of 

 the ligliter color of tlie culmen" (Gould). 



Wing, 21. UO inches ; culmen, 4.50 ; depth of bill at base, 1.75 ; tarsus, 3.25 ; middle toe, 5.00. 



The individual described by Audubon as the Yellow-nosed Albatross (D. chloro- 

 rhynchos), and said to have been procured by Mr. Townsend near the mouth of the 



1 " Bill lilack, the culmen horn-color, and the edge of the basal two thirds of the under mandible 

 orange" (Gould, Birds of Australia, pt. vii.). 



"Bill black, with the ridge in its entire length and breadth, the tip of the upper mandible, and the 

 crura of the lower along their interior edges yellow. Feet yellow, claws yellowish gray " (Audubon). 



