TUBE-NOSED SW1MMEKS. 43 



and oily refuse cast into the water by fisher- 

 men and whalers. Egg, single, white ; young, 

 downy when hatched, but are at first help, 

 less and fed by regurgitation, fig, 29. 



ALBATROSSES. 



Very large birds which live upon the 

 open ocean, remote from continental land. 

 The wings are very long and narrow. The 

 nests are mound-like structures placed on oc- 

 eanic islands. All of the species occur in 

 the Pacific or oceans of the southern hemi- 

 sphere ; accidental elsewhere. 



18. YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



Size, large, 36. Grayish throughout, 

 with the rump and upper tail coverts white. 

 There is a dark spot before the eye and be- 

 hind it. Bill, yellow. Occurs in the Indian 

 and South Pacific Oceans. Accidental in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



