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**WITH SHORT LEGS. 



Genus LXXXIII. ALBATROSS. 



N* i. Wandering A. N° 3. Yellow-nofed A. 



2. Chocolate A. 4. Sooty A. 



BILL ftrong, bending in the middle, and hooked at the end 

 of the upper mandible; that of the lower abrupt; the 

 lower part inclining downwards. 



Noftrils opening forwards, and covered with a large convex 

 guard. 



Tongue fcarcely perceivable, only the rudiment of one. 

 Toes three in number, all placed forwards. 



1. Diomedeaexulans, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 214. 1. 



-f- WANDERING L'Albatros, Br if. Orn. vi. p. 126.— £«f. Oif. ix. p. 339. pi. 24. —/7. 



A ' Enl. 237. 



Man of War Bird, Albin, iii. pi. 81. (the head.) 

 Tchaiki, Hifi. Kamtfcbat. p. 154. 

 Albatrofs, Ediu. pi. 88. — Pall. Spic. Fafc. v. p. 28. 

 Wandering Albatrofs, Ar(l. Zool. p. 506. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. "DIGGER than a Swan: length from three fret fix inches to 



four feet : the general extent is ten feet from wing to wing; 



but many of our voyagers mention them as greatly exceeding 



thefe 



