ALBATROSS. 



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thefe dimenlions * : weight from twelve to twenty-eight pounds. 

 The bill dirty yellow : crown of the head pale cinereous brown : 

 the reft of the body for the moft part white, crofled with blackilh 

 lines on the back and wings, and with fpots in the fame direction 

 towards the rump : the greater quills are black : the tail dufky 

 lead-colour, and rounded in fhape : legs flefh-colour. 



The young birds are faid to be brown j as they advance have 

 more or lefs a mixture of white ; but do not become of the co- 

 lour of the above-defcribed till mature age. 



Albatrojfes are very frequent in many parts without the tropics, Place and 

 both to the northward as well as fouth ; not being by any means Manners. 

 confined to the laft, as has been by fome imagined f . Indeed 

 they are in great plenty in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, as all voyagers can teftify; and not only thefe but other 

 forts alfo, and from thence in every temperate fouthern latitude J, 

 as far towards the pole as has yet been exploded. 



Thefe birds are alfo often feen in vaft flocks in Kamtfchatka, 

 and adjacent iflands, about the end of June, where they are 

 called Great Gulls; but it is chiefly in the bay of Penfcbinenji, the 

 whole inner fea of Kamtfchatka, the Kurile ifles, and that of Be- 

 ring -, for on the eaftern coafts of the firft they are fcarce, a Angle 

 ftraggler only appearing now and then. Their chief motive for 



* Above ten feet. Forji. Foy. i. p. 87 — Ten feet two inches called an 

 enormous fize. Haiukef. Foy. iii. p. 627. — Eleven feet feven inches. Parkin/. 

 Foy. p. 82. — Eleven feet. Cook's Journal, p. 77. — Twelve feet. MS. at Sir 

 Jofepb Banks's,. — One at Sir AJhton Lever's is faid to have expanded thirteen feet. 

 — And Ives even mentions one mot off the Cafe of Good Hope, which meafured as 

 far as feventeen feet and a half from wing to wing. See Foy. p. 5. 



t Buf. Oif.ix. p. 339. 



% Seldom below 30 degrees : never in the torrid zone. Forfc. Foy. j. p. 4S3. 

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