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specimens, make any alteration in size ; and 

 although the plumage differed through age, it did 

 not afford any sexual distinction." 



The late Mr W. Ayshford Sanford, writing of 

 Albatrosses seen during a voyage to Australia, and 

 particularly referring to those skinned and dissected 

 by h\ms&\{ {Zoologist, 1889, p. 387), remarks: — 



" I have never measured an Albatross which 



THE WANDERING ALBATROSS. 



was more than 1 1 feet in expanse of wing — I think 

 the exact measurement was 10 feet 10 in. — but I 

 have been confidently assured by others that they 

 have measured some as much as 14 feet. 



This confirms the above-mentioned statement 

 ty Dr Bennett. 



Herr Reischek, who visited and described a 

 remarkable breeding haunt of the Wandering 

 Albatross in the Auckland Islands {Trans. N.Z. 



