GALLING. CHIONIDIDjfc. 



tail is moderate and even. The tarsi and toes are 

 short and strong, the outer toe united at the base 

 to its fellow by a membrane ; the hind toe small, 

 elevated, and placed on one side; the claws are 

 short and blunt. 



SHEATH-BILL. 



These singular birds of snow-white plumage are 

 found on the dreary and iron-bound shores around 

 Cape Horn, or on the solitary islands and rocks 

 of the Antarctic Ocean. They have been met 

 with by southern voyagers at a great distance from 

 any land, and are supposed to rest and feed on 

 sea-weeds and other refuse matter cast up on the 

 icebergs of those remote seas. They frequent 



