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NESTS AND EGGS OF 



¥:* Wandering Abatross (From Brehm), • ^ 



larger end -with reddish specks and spots, the spots running together. The second 

 has the large end sprinkled with minute specks of dull reddish and the small end Is 

 also similarly marked. In the last specimen above measured the large end is 

 sprinkled with small specks of chestnut brown. An average size of ten specimens 

 is as follows: Largest, 5.43x3.08; smallest, 4.87x3.00; the broadest specimen be:::g 

 3.14. 



81. BLACK-FOOTED ALBATROSS. Diomedea nioripes Aud. Geog. Dist.— 

 North Pacific, including west coast of North America. 



The Black-footed Albatross is an abundant bird of the North Pacific Ocean. 

 Like others of this family, it is noted for its protracted powers of fiight, following 

 vessels for hundreds of miles and subsisting on the refuse thrown overboard, which', 

 with crabs, etc., is its main food. Very little is known conceriiing the nesting habits 

 of this species. It is said to breed on the small guano islands southwest of the 

 Sandwich group in the North Pacific, depositing a single white egg in a depression of 

 the soil, surrounded with a little sea-weed. Mr. Dall learned from Capt. George 



