Tl'BlNAUES. 



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Subclass GALLIF0B3IES. 



\_Cf. Scebolim, Classif. B. p. 33.] 



A. Yonno- when liatched thickly covered with (h)wn. 



B. Maxillo-paliitincs not united across the middle line. 



C. Keel of sternum well developed. 



D. Deep plantar tendon, if reacliing the hallux, proceeding 



from the/^.TO/' lonc/us hallucis, and not from the jie.vor per- 

 forans digitorum. 



Older I. TUBINAllES *. 



rC/ Steincger, Stand. Nat. Hist., Aves, p. 84 ; Secbolim, Classif. E. 

 ^ ' ■ p. 34.] 



A. External nostrils produced into tubes. 

 B Nasals holorhinal. 



C. Dorsal vertebrae heterocoelous. 



D. Hallux absent, or reduced to one phalanx, the other toes 



directed forward. 



E. Spinal feather-tract well-defined on the neck. 



F. Oil-oland tufted. 



Family DIOMEDEID^. 



A. Nasals tubes separated from each other. 



B. No basipterygoid processes. 



Genus DIOMEDEAt. 

 Linnajus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 214 (1700). 



Diomedea exulans. 



DIomedea exuJam, Linnaeus, Syst. Xat. i. p. 214 (170(3) ; Sharpc, 

 rhil. Trans, extra vol. 168, p. 45 (1879). 



The Wandering Albatros. 



Hah. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 



* Cf. Procellariiformes, Sharpe, Review, p. 71 ; Lydeklvcr, Cat. Fossil 

 BirdsBrit.Mus. p. 184(1891). 



t Cf. Lvdekker, Cat. Fossil lairds Brit. Mus. p. 188 (1891) : also Sliufrl( t, 

 rroc. U.S. N^at. Mus. 1888, pp. ^o-i-ZVo (" Fi<rures and Descriptions ot X<n th- 

 Aiuerican Tubiiiures'"). 



