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THE TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS — TUBINARES. 



ThalasBogeron culminatus. 



THE TELL0W-H08ED ALBATB0S8. 



JHomcdea culminala, (ioii-D, P. /. S. July 25, 1843, 107 ; Birds Austral. VII. pi. 41. — GnAT, Gen. 



B. 1849, 1>1. 179. — CouEs, I'r. I'liihid. Aeiul. 1806, 183. — STitEET.s, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



no. 7, 1877, 31. — ItlDow. Noin. N. .\m. II. 1881, no. 702. 

 Diomedea chhrorhyiichns, Art). Oni. IMog. V. 1839, 326; H. Am. VII. 1844, 196. — Lawb. in 



IJninl's n. N. Am. 1858, 822 (cxd. Hj-n.). — BaikI), Cut. N. Am. 11. 1859, no. 632. 



Had. "Southern, Indian, and South Pacific Oceans" (Gould, 1. c.) ; casual off the coost of 

 Oregon (Audubon). 



Sp. Char. AiIuH : Head ami neck liglit ash-gray, darker ininictliately in front of the eycf, paler 

 on the throat, and lading into white on the lower surface of the body ; lower eyelid white. Back 

 brownish pluinlKious, fading gradually into the light ashy of the nape, growing gradually darker 



Adult. 



towonl the scapulars, which, with the enfin? wings, are uniform dark I)rf)wnish slate, or dusky ; 

 rump and upper tail-cinerts while; tail hoary slate-gray, the shafts yellowish white. Shafts of 

 primaries straw-yellow, changing to hrown terminally. Bill ijrayisli lihick, the culmen (ahriiptly) 

 and the lower part of the maiidihle yellowish white ; legs aiitl feet dull brownish.' Yuitiiii: 

 " Iletul and neck dark gray ;" the bill "almost uniform brownish black, with only an indication of 

 tbo lighter color of the culmen " ((Soii.d). 



Wing, 2l.(K> inches ; culmen, 4.50 ; depth of bill at base, 1.75 ; tarsus, .3.2.') ; middh! toe, 6.(X). 



The individual dpscril)ed by Audubon tis tbt> Yidlow-noscd Albiitro,s8 (A rhhtv- 

 rhijnrhoa), and said to have Ijei^n procured by Mr. Towuscud near tlie mouth of the 



1 " Bill blnck, the culmen hont-color, and the etlge of the bnwil two thirds of the under mnnilibii' 

 orange" ((Jori.i), Binis of Auntraliii, |)t. vii.). 



" Bill bbick, with the ridge in its eiitiiv length uml breadth, the tip of thn up|HT mandible, ami the 

 crura of the lower along their infurior edges yellow. Feet yellow, claws yi-llowish gniy " (Auiii;uon). 



