118. THALASSOGERON CHLORORHYNCHUS (Gm.). 



(YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROS.) 

 (Plate 102.) 



Yellow-nosed Albatross, Lath., Gen. Syn., III., pt. 2, p. 309, PI. XCIV. (1785) ; id., 



Gen. Hist., X., p. 52, PI. CLXIX. (1824). 

 Diomedea chlororhynchos,^ Gm., Syst. Nat., I., p. 568 (1788) ; Gould, Birds Austr., VIL, 



PI. 42 (1844) ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., II., p. 437 (1865) ; Coues, Pr. 



Acad. Philad., 1866, pp. 148, 188; Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 294 (1873); 



id., SuppL, I., p. 154 (1905) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 560 ; Nicoll, t.c, 



p. 675. 

 Diomedea chrysostoma, Forster, Descr. Anim., p. 24 (1844). 



Diomedea olivaceorhyncha, Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., XIII. , p. 361 (1844). 

 Diomedea olivaceirostris, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 185 (1855) ; Coues, Pr. Acad. 



Philad., 1866, pp. 186, 188. 

 Thalassarche chlororliynchus, Giglioli, Faun. Vertebr. Oceano, p. 59 (1870) ; id., 



Viagg. Magenta, pp. 106, 725 (1871). 

 Diomedea profuga, Gray, Hand-list Birds, III., p. 109 (1871, Solanders MSS. in Mus. 



Brit.) ; Salvin in Rowley's Orn. Misc., I., p. 238 (1876). 

 Thalassogeron chlororhynchus, Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, p. 53 (1887) ; Salvin, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 451 (1896); Hall, Ibis, 1900, p. 18; 



Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1906, p. 177, 1907, p. 344; Nicoll, Ibis, 1906, p. 



396 ; Wilson, Nat. Antarctic Exped., II., Aves, pp. 114, 115. 



T. culminate similis, sed culminicorne flavo : rostro reliquo nigro : capite fere albo, 

 facie laterali pallide cinereo lavato. 



This species is distinguished by its black bill and light yellow culminicorn. It 

 resembles T. culminatus in general appearance, but the bill is more slender, and the 

 oulminicorn does not reach to the frontal feathers, as the former is separated at its base 

 by a piece of bare skin ; these characteristics are very well shown in Gould's figures of 

 the two species in his "Birds of Australia." 



f Written D. chlororhyncha by some authors. 



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