'96 YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family PROCELLARIIDjE. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Diomedea. f Linnceus.J 



YELLOW-NOSED ALBATEOSS. 



Diomedea chlororhyticos. 



Diomedea chlororkyncos, Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 



" " Latham; Ind., 1790. 



Albatros cholororhynque. Of the French. 



specific Characters. — Beak medium sized, black, yellow at the tip, and 

 along the upper ridge and the base of the lower mandible ; between the 

 bill and the eyes an obscure black spot, and just over the eye a dusky 

 one. Length three feet; expanse of wing seven feet; bill four inches. 



This species of Albatross inhabits the South Seas beyond the 

 tropics, and has occurred still more rarely than the last in European 

 seas. Two instances are, however, mentioned by Esmark (Degland, 

 " Orn. Eur.,'^ p. 359,) as having been killed near Kongsberg, in 

 Norway, in the month of April, 1837 ; and therefore I suppose it 

 is entitled to the place given to it by Bonaparte and Degland among 

 the birds of Europe. 



It ranges, according to Latham, from 30° to 60° in the southern 

 hemisphere, all round the pole, and flies five or six feet above the 

 surface of the sea. 



Dr. Bennett, who gives a lengthened account of the "^ Wandering 

 Albatross," and also mentions the "Sooty Albatross" as occurring in 

 the South Seas, does not allude by name to the subject of the 

 present notice, except as having been figured by Gould among the 

 birds of Australia. He no doubt, however, includes it among the 

 "smaller species," which he states, at p. 77 of his "Gatherings of a 



