48 ALBATROSS. 



** WITH SHORT LEGS. 



GENUS XCVIII.— ALBATROSS. 



1 Wandering Albatross 

 A Var. 

 B Var.' 



2 Chocolate 

 A Var. 



3 Yellow-nosed 



4 Sooty 



JjILL strong, bending in the middle, and hooked at the end of the 

 upper mandible ; that of the lower abrupt; the lower part inclining 

 downwards. 



Nostrils opening forwards, and covered with a large, convex guard. 



Tongue scarcely perceptible, only the rudiment of one. 



Toes three in number, all placed forwards. 



1— WANDERING ALBATROSS. 



Diomedea exulans, Ind. Orn. ii. 789. Lin. i. 214. Gm. Lin. i. 566. Borowsk. iii. 27. 



t. 27. Gerin. v. t. 552. Lin. Trans, xiii. 489. Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. ex. 

 Plautus Albatrus, Klein, 140. t. 13. Bris. vi. 126. Id. 8vo. ii. 394. Buf. ix. 339. 



pi. 24. PL enl. 237. 

 Tchaiki, Pall. Spic.fasc. v. p. 28. Hist. Kamtsch. 154. 

 Der Wandernde Schiffsvogel, Schmid, Vog. p. 144. t. 120. 



Man of War Bird, Albin, iii. pi. 81. — the head. Greta's Mus. t. 6. f. 1. — the head. 

 Wandering Albatross, Gen. Syn. v. 304. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 423. Edw. pi. 88. Staunt. 



Chin. i. 222. 



THIS is bigger than the Swan ; and the length from three to 

 four feet; the extent of wing at least ten feet;* but many of our 



* Above ten feet, — Forst. Voy. i. 87. Ten feet two inches, called an enormous size, — 

 Hawkesw. Voy. iii. 627. Eleven feet seven inches, — Parkins. Voy. 82. Eleven feet,— 

 Cook's Journ. 77. Twelve feet, MS at Sir Joseph Banks's. One in the Leverian Museum 

 expanded thirteen feet ; and Ives even mentions one, shot off the Cape of Good Hope, 

 measuring seventeen feet and a half from wing to wing. See Voy. p. 5. 



