3io ALBATROSS. 



ing to black or/c0/-colour : for a fmall fpace above, behind, and 

 beneath the eye, the feathers are white, but not on the fore part 

 of it: quills and tail dark brown, nearly black; the fhafts of 

 both white-, the laft pointed in Ihape : legs pale brownifh lead- 

 colour : claws black. 

 Place. This fpecies was firft met with in lat 47. fouth*, but was 



afterwards obferved throughout the Southern Ocean within the 

 antarclic circle. It was called by our failors the Quaker, from its 

 brown plumage. 



* Firft met with about the time of firft falling in with the ice. — Cook's 

 Voj. i. p. 38. 



Genus 



