Albatrosses. 
BIAS VIEWED FROM ABOVE. 
81. Black-footed Albatross (Diomedea nigripes). LL. 
32. Ads. Sooty brown, lighter below; region about 
base of bill whitish; upper mandible road and rounded 
at its base. Notes. A whining groan, uttered when 
contesting for food. (Turner). 
Range.—North Pacific; north to Lat. 52° ; south at least to Lower 
California. 
82. Short-tailed Albatross (Diomedea albatrus). L. 
36. Ads. White; the head straw; tail and primaries 
gray brown; upper mandible broad and rounded at 
base. 
Range.—North Pacific, north to Bering Strait; south, at least, to 
Lower California. 
82.1. Laysan Albatross (Diomeda immutabilis). 
L. 32. Ads. Head, neck, rump, upper tail coverts, 
and whole under surface white; lores next to the eye 
sooty black; back, wings, and end of the tail dark 
sooty brown; interscapular region paler; base of the 
tail whitish. (Cat. B. M.) 
Range.—Laysan Island, Pacific Ocean; casual off the coast -of 
Lower California; 
83. Yellow-nosed Albatross (Thalassogeron culmin- 
atus\. 1.36. Ads. Above slate brown, grayer on 
head; rump white; below white; neck sometimes 
grayish; tail gray. 
Range—‘‘Indian and southern Pacific Oceans; casual off the 
coast of Oregon; accidental in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.’’ (A. O. U.) 
84. Sooty Albatross (Phabetria fuliginosa). L. 35. 
Ads. Sides of lower mandible conspicuously grooved; en- 
tire plumage sooty brown, except a white eye-ring. 
Range.—* nae of southern hemisphere, north to the coast of 
Oregon.”’ (A. O. U.) 
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