YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 3i!7 



Plumage full, soft and blended. Wings very long and very nar- 

 row, the humerus and cubitus being extremely elongated ; the first pri- 

 mary longest, the rest very rapidly diminishing ; the secondaries ex- 

 tremely short. Tail of tvrelve broadly rounded feathers, short, rounded, 

 the lateral feathers one inch shorter than the middle. 



Bill black, with the ridge in its entire length and breadth, the tip 

 of the upper mandible, and the crura of the lower along their inferior 

 edge, yellow. Feet yellow, claws yellowish-grey. The head and neck 

 are ash-grey, the fore part of the back shaded into blackish-grey ; the 

 wings entirely brownish-black, the shafts of the primaries white, to- 

 ward the end brownish-black ; the hind part of the back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts, white ; the tail deep grey, the bases and shafts of 

 the feathers white. The loral space is of a darker grey than the rest 

 of the head, and that colour deepens at the fore part of the eye, forming 

 a spot which includes the whole of the upper eyelid, and the anterior 

 half of the lower, of which the other half is white ; the lower half of 

 the neck anteriorly, the breast, sides, abdomen, lower tail-coverts, some 

 of the axillaries, and the larger lower wing-coverts white ; the rest 

 being broAvnish-black. 



Length to end of tail 37 inches ; bill along the ridge 5^^, along the 

 edge of lower mandible 4^§, its height at the base l/g, at the middle 1, 

 at the angle 1^^ ; wing from flexm-e 21 ; tail 8^ ; bare part of 

 tibia I ; tarsus 3j% ; inner toe S^'j, its claw I'^j ; middle toe ij^^, its 

 claw 1% ; outer toe 4:^%, its claw 1^2 . 



BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. 



DiOMEBEA NIGRIPES. 



Foe a specimen of this Albatross, I am indebted to Dr Townsend, 

 who procured it on the 25th December 1834, on the Pacific Ocean, in 

 lat. 30°, 44', N. long. 146°. It is clearly distinct from the other two 

 described in this work, namely the Dusky and the Yellow-nosed ; but 

 I have received no information respecting its habits. Not finding any 

 of the meagre notices or descriptions to which I can refer to agree with 



