WANDEilING ALBATROSS. 



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diagram tlie remarkable power which, tliis bird lias of 

 flying within two points of the wind, and of tacking 

 like a ship. "The diagram forms the segment of a 

 circle. N is the direction from which the wind is 

 supposed to be blowing; C is a ship sailing within six 



points of the wind; B is the course of a cutter which 

 can sail ^close hauled' to within four points and a half 

 of the wind; A is the course of the Albatross, which 

 flies so close to the wind as to keep within two points 

 of the wind, and appears almost to fly against it." 



In the Australasian seas Dr. Bennett says the squid 

 or cuttle-fish forms their principal food, after feeding 



