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the base of the under mandible is also yellow : irides 

 brown : the head is grey ; between the beak and eyes 

 is an obscure black spot ; just over the eye a dusky 

 one : the hind part of the neck dusky, the lower part 

 white : back, scapulars, and wings, dusky blue-black : 

 rump and under part of the body white : the tail 

 dusky : the legs are pale -yellowish-white ; the fore 

 part of them, and the webs dusky. This species is 

 met with in the southern hemisphere, from thirty to 

 sixty degrees all round the pole. Fly about five or 

 six feet above the water." This bird, according to 

 Captain Carmichael, builds its solitary nest, in the 

 Island of Tristan de Cunha, in some sheltered corner ; 

 selecting in particular the small drains that draw the 

 water off the land into the ravines : the nest is of 

 the height of ten or twelve inches, of a cylindrical 

 form, with a small ditch round the base ; and there 

 is only one egg, which is white, and very large. 



SOOTY ALBATROSS. 



-r (Diomedea fuliginosa.) 



Di. rostro nigro, corpore fuliginoso-fusco, pone oculos lunula 



alba. 

 Albatross with the beak black, the body sooty-brown, and a white 



lunule behind the eyes. 

 Diomedea fuliginosa. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 568. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 791. 

 Sooty Albatross. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 309. Lath. Gen. Hist. 



x. 54. 



