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nests without the smallest resistance, and soon return 

 again to their post : when irritated the feathers of 

 the cheeks are separated, so as to display a beau- 

 tiful stripe of naked orange skin, running from the 

 corners of the mouth towards the back of the head. 



WANDERING ALBATROSS. 

 ^- (Diomedea exulans.) 



Di. supra Jusco-riifescens nigricante striata et maculata subtus 

 alba, collo supra et lateribus Jusco transversim striatis, remi- 

 gibus majoribus nigris, minoribus rectricibusque plumbeo-nigri- 

 cantibus. 



Albatross above brown-red, striped and spotted with dusky, be- 

 neath white, the upper part and sides of the neck transversely 

 striped with brown, the greater quills black, the lesser and tail- 

 feathers dusky-lead colour. 



Diomedea exulans. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 214. Gruel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 566. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 789. 



Albatrus. Briss. Orn. 6. 126. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 339. 



pi. 24. Buff. PI. Enl. 237. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1.517. 

 Man of War Bird. Albin. Birds, 3. pi. 81. 

 Wandering Albatross. Edw. Glean, pi. 88. Penn. Arct. Zocl. 



2. 423. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 304. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 48, 



The Wandering Albatross is as large as a Swan : 

 length near four feet : extent about ten feet, or up- 

 wards : its beak is dirty yellow : the crown of the 

 head is pale ashy-brown : the prevailing colour of the 

 rest of the body is white, crossed with blackish lines 

 on the back and wings, and with spots towards the 

 rump : the greater quills are black : the tail is dusky- 



