ALBATROSS. 



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L 1 



Br. Muf. 



ENGTH three feet: breadth feven. The bill four inches 

 long, hooked at the end, but not very flout ; the colour of 

 it is black, except the upper ridge, which is yellow the whole 

 length, quite to the tip, where it is hooked ; the bafe of the un- 

 der mandible is alfo yellow : irides brown : the head is grey : 

 between the bill and eyes is an obfcure black fpot; jufl over the 

 eye a dufky one : the hind part of the neck dufky, the lower 

 part white : back, fcapulars, and wings, dufky blue black: rump, 

 and under part of the body, white: the tail dufky: the legs are pale 

 yellowifh white ; the fore part of them, and the webs, dufky. 



This fpecies is met with in the fouthern hemifphere, from 30 

 to 60 degrees, all round the pole*. The fpecimenfrom whence 

 the above defcription was drawn up, was taken off the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Inhabits the South Seas without the tropics. Fly 

 about five or fix feet above the furface of the water. 



YELLOW- 

 NOSED A. 



Pl. XCIV. 

 Description'. 



Place. 



Sooty, or brown Albatrofj, Forji. Voy. i. p. 91. 

 Albatrofs with a white eye-brow, Cook's Voy. i. p. 38 f . 



IZE of a Goofe : length near three feet. Bill black: irides 

 pale yellow : at each angle of die eye a nictitating membrane . 

 general colour of the plumage brown : the head and tail inclin- 



S 



* One was caught in lat. 57. 30. S. in the month of February 

 f Perhaps the black-billed Albatrofs of Park. Voy. p. 84 ? — In ForJl. Voy. i. 

 p. 91. it is called the leaft of the Albatroffes ; and therefore may prove the fmaller 

 one with a. black face, met with oSKerguekri'sLandixi the month of December. 

 Cook's laft Voy. i. p. 87. 



SOOTY A. 



Description. 



