308 ALBATROSS. 



by different voyagers, at various times, in intermediate places *, 

 The food is fuppofed to be chiefly fmall marine animals, efpe- 

 cially of the Mollnjca or Blubber clafs f, as well as Flying Fijh %. 



z - Deep brown, or chocolate Albatrofs, Cook's Voy. ii. p. 116. ico II. 



CHOCOLATE A. * t Mr 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE larger than the Sooty Albatrojs. The bill in this bird of 

 a yellowifh white: irides brown : fore part of the head, round 

 the eye, chin, and throat, white: the plumage in general of a 

 fine deep chocolate-colour; the neck and under parts paled: 

 the inner ridge of the wing, and under wing coverts, white ; and 

 the belly inclines much to white : the tail is fhort, rounded in 

 fhapej that and the wings equal in length: the legs blueifh 

 white : claws white. 

 Place. This bird varies in having more or' lefs white about the head, 



and in a greater or lefs degree of purity. Seen in the South Seas, 

 in lat. 37, the end of December. 



* Seen between fix and feven hundred leagues from land, in the middle of the 



fouthern ocean. — Forft. Ob/ p. 211. Met with at the Sand-wich IJlands. — Ellis 



Narr. ii. p. 149. Alfo in lat. 26. 31. N. on the 4th of April. — Id. p. 193. 



OS Japan and JeJJb, in O3ober 1771- — Cook's laftVoy. vol. iii. p. ^91. Lat. 



33. S. May 5. — OJbcck Voy. i. p. 109. 



t Forft. Voy. i. p. 118. 



\ Amcen. Acad. v. p. 75. — Ar3. Zool. N° 507. 



|| As few of the voyagers have thought worth while to defcribe the birds to 

 which they have given names, we cannot always be clear of the fpecies meant ; 

 are therefore not quite certain it was the one here defcribed. — Chocolate Alba- 

 tro/s alfo mentioned by Forfter ; but were not obferved by him, except among 



the ice. — Voy. i. p. 258. Perhaps the Albatro/s with a white beak. — Park. 



Voy. p. 83. 84 ? 



Br, 



