|96 YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



upper edges decurved. Head rather large, ovate; neck of moderate length; 

 body full. Feet rather short, stoutish; tibia bare, below scaly; tarsus 

 roundish, reticulated; toes three, long, slender, outer very little shorter than 

 middle, scaly for half their length, then scutellate. Claws rather small, 

 slender, slightly arched, somewhat obtuse. Plumage full, soft, blended, but 

 rather fine, somewhat compact above. Wings very long, and very narrow, 

 the humerus and cubitus extremely elongated; first quill longest. Tail of 

 twelve broadly rounded feathers, short, rounded. 



YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



f DlOMEDEA CHLORORHYNCHOS, Gmel. 



(not figured.) 



A skin of this bird was sent to me by Mr. Townsend, who procured it in 

 the Pacific Ocean, not far from the mouth of the Columbia river. The 

 species is well known, and one which, unlike most of the others, has been 

 tolerably well described. 



Diomedea culououhynchos, Arid. Orn. Biog\, vol. v. p. 326. 



Length, 37; wing, 21; bill, 5^; tail, 8^. 



Pacific Ocean, not far from Columbia river. 



Bill longer than the head, nearly straight, stout, much compressed. 

 Upper mandible with its dorsal outline much declinate and nearly straight 

 for a third of its length, then concave, ascending to the unguis, on which it 

 is arched and decurved in the third of a circle, the ridge broad, convex, 

 rounded at the base, separated in its whole length by a groove, margined 

 below beyond the nostrils by a prominent line, from the sides, which are 

 erect and convex, the edges sharp, the unguis decurved, much compressed, 

 with its sides flattened, and the tip acute. Nostrils sub-basal, prominent, 

 tubular, having a horny sheath. Lower mandible with the angle very 

 narrow, reaching to the tip, and having at its extremity a long slender 

 interposed horny process; the outline of the crura gently ascending and quite 



