2G L 2 YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



Length about three feet : the beak of a yellowish- 

 white colour : the irides brown : the fore part of the 

 head, round the eyes, the chin, and the throat, white : 

 the general colour of the plumage is a fine deep cho- 

 colate colour ; the neck and under parts palest : the 

 inner ridge of the wing and under wing-coverts white : 

 the belly is whitish : the tail is short and rounded : 

 the legs bluish-white : their claws white. It varies 

 in having more or less white about the head. Found 

 in the Pacific Ocean. 



yellow-nosed albatross. 



- (Diomedea chlororhynchos.) 



Di. rostro nigro supra basique Jlavo , corpore supra atro-caruleo, 



subtus uropygioque albis. 

 Albatross with the beak black, above and its base yellow, the 



body above dark bluish, beneath and rump white. 

 Diomedea chlororhynchos. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.568. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 790. 

 Yellow-nosed Albatross. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5.309. pi. 94. Lath. 



Gen, Hist. x. 52.pl. clxix. 



Described and figured by Latham from a spe- 

 cimen said to be in the British Museum, and which 

 was taken off the Cape of Good Hope. " Length 

 three feet : breadth seven : the beak four inches long, 

 hooked at the end, but not very stout ; the colour of 

 it is black, except the upper ridge, which is yellow 

 the whole length quite to the tip, where it is hooked ; 



