THE BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. 861 
ward. They are known to the Quillayute Indians, who point out a rock off 
Cape Johnson upon which the birds sometimes roost to the number of a 
hundred or more. In British Columbia they are recorded as casual in the 
interior in company with the White Pelican. 
No. 347: 
BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. 
A. O. U. No. 81. Diomedea nigripes Aud. 
Synonyms.—GoongEy. GoNny. BROWN GOONEY. 
Description.—4dult: General color sooty brown, lighter (grayer) below, 
except on throat and chest; space all around bill grayish white, thence shading thru 
grayish brown on sides of head and upper throat; anterior half of upper and 
lower eyelids dusky ; posterior half white, that of the lower lid produced backward 
and downward as a decided white patch; lighter, nearly white, about base of tail; 
feathers of upperparts tipped with lighter gray, as tho faded; primaries black with 
yellow shafts; tail-feathers blackish with white shafts, except on terminal por- 
tions; bill dark reddish brown; feet black. Young birds: Like adult, but tail- 
coverts sooty black. Length 30.00-36.00 (762-914.4); wing 19.00-20.00 (482.6- 
508) ; tail 6.50 (165.1); bill 1.50 (38.1) deep, and 1.25 (31.8) wide at base, 
length 4.00 (101.6) ; tarsus 3.75 (95.3). 
Recognition Marks.—Eagle size; sooty plumage of adults and young; red- 
dish brown bill; white face; black feet. ‘ 
Nesting.—Does not breed in Washington. Nests: in colonies; single egg laid 
on bare sand or rock. 
General Range.—The North Pacific; south on American coast to California. 
Range in Washington.—Common off West Coast. 
Authorities.— ? Audubon, Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 327. [ Newberry, Rep. Pac. 
R. R. Surv. VI. pt. IV. 1857, p. 106, “Mouth of the Columbia.”] [Cooper and 
Suckley, p. 269, under D. brachyura. Not a clear record, but probably valid. ] 
Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XIII. 1890, p. 142. Hubbard, Zoe. 
III. July 1892, p. 142. 
Specimens.— Prov. 
THE solace of the ocean voyager—at least after novels and shuffle-board 
have lost their charm—is the sight of the gooneys. These tireless watchers of 
the deep adopt our ship almost without our knowing it some thirty miles from 
shore, where the gulls abandon her to her wilful course across the vast 
Pacific. For the bare hope of refuse from the cook’s galley, they will follow 
the ship for hours and days together, but they count it no hardship. It is sport 
rather. Instead of plodding wearily in the wake, they throw great circles of 
