364 THE ALBATROSS. 



hook and line, and a piece of salt pork by way 

 of bait,) in latitude 39^ 40' south, and longitude 

 101° 5' east. The wings, when expanded, mea- 

 sured six feet eleven inches from point to point. 

 This was called Pio by some of the sailors on 

 board. The bill was of a beautiful shining 

 black, with a distinct white membrane passing 

 about two-thirds down the lower mandible ; the 

 legs were naked, and, as well as the feet, of a 

 flesh colour ; irides brown, and a circle of white 

 feathers surrounded the orbit ; the head, neck, 

 throat, and back, were of a sooty colour ; breast 

 and abdomen greyish ; wing coverts of a light 

 grey ; the pen-feathers of a light black ; the tail 

 feathers above of a sooty, inferiorly of a light 

 grey colour ; the feet had each three toes, united 

 by a web, slightly serrated at the edges ; the 

 first toe had five, the second four, and the third 

 three phalanges. 



On the 3rd of January another specimen was 

 caught in latitude 40° 34' south, and longitude 

 107° 18' east, which differed in plumage from 

 the preceding by having the sooty feathers on 

 the head and back intermixed with white, which 

 difference in plumage may have depended on 

 affe, as the sex of both birds was the same, 

 being both males. 



I have subsequently had opportunities of ex- 



