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NE8T8 AND EGGS OF 



* WANDERING ABATROSS (Prom Brebm). 



larger end with reddish specks and spots, th unning together. The second 



has the large end sprinkled with minute specks of dull reddish and the small end is 

 also similarly marked. In the last specimen above measured the large end is 

 sprinkled with small specks of chestnut brown. An average size of ten specimens 

 is as follows: Largest, 5.43x3.08; smallest, 4.87x3.00; the broadest specimen being 



81. BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. IHnmnh,, ,</"/" * Aud. Geog. Dist 

 North Paeifie. including west coast of North America. 



k-footed Albatross is an abundant bird of the North I'arifi. Ocean. 



Fl of this family, it is nnterl for its protracted powers of flight, following 



vessels for hundreds of miles and subsisting on the refuse thrown overboard, which. 



with crabs, etc., is its main food. Very little is known eoneeinir ;ibits 



. It is said to breed on the small r;uano islands southwest of the 



Sandwich group in the North Pacific, depositing a llngli white egg in a depression of 



the soil, surrounded with a little sea-weed. Mr. Da 11 learned from Capt. George 



