78 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH Ser. 
(plate 8), and by viciously snapping the bill. On one occasion 
when a bird was being chased, its mate left the egg and fol- 
lowed in pursuit for fifteen or twenty yards, menacing with its 
bill. 
Unlike the Black-footed Albatross of northern waters, this 
species usually gave the schooner Academy a wide berth. One 
day when anchored at Barrington Island in July, two or three 
individuals came to the vessel, attracted by some seal fat that 
was being thrown overboard. Only one, however, overcame 
its caution sufficiently to alight and feed. 
In walking, the gait was slow and the head was swayed 
from side to side, in a way keeping time with their steps. They 
were often seen standing with their tarsi flat on the ground, 
as ostriches are wont to do in confinement. 
“The adults have a hoarse croaking note which seemed to 
be used in anger and in talking to the young and to each other. 
Often an adult would look down at its young and utter severai 
hoarse notes.’’ Another note was a sort of moan uttered when 
alone or when in company with another bird and usually with 
neck outstretched and bill pointing upwards. The young, a 
few days old, had a kind of chuckle which was given in a rather 
high key. 
At Hood Island the stomachs of the adults were often 
empty. Many were filled with a greenish or a brownish oily 
fluid about the consistency of milk. When molested, the old 
and young ejected this fluid; in several instances old birds also 
disgorged the remains of squid. The young were fed by re- 
gurgitation, the lower mandible of the parent serving as a sort 
of dish. Internal parasites were found in the alimentary tract 
of adults. 
The Expedition brought back seventy-seven specimens of 
this albatross, sixty-five adults and eight nestlings in the skin, 
two adults in the flesh in formalin, and two skeletons of adults. 
With the exception of an adult male from the vicinity of Bar- 
rington Island, taken July 10, 1906, all were obtained on Hood 
Island between September 24 and October 3, 1905, and be- 
tween June 23 and July 3, 1906. 
The eight nestlings exhibit a definite dichromatism; a light 
phase, typically manifested in No. 1180, female, June 28, and 
