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settling on the water;* but indeed, the Albatross rarely flies at a 

 great distance from the surface, except obliged so to do by high 

 winds, t or other causes. As soon as the young are able to remove 

 from the nest, the Penguins take possession, and hatch their young 

 in turn. It is probable, that they pass from one part of the globe to 

 another, according to the season ; being occasionally met with, in 

 intermediate places.:}: The food is supposed to be chiefly small 

 marine animals, especially of the mollusca, or blubber class,§ also 

 flying fish. || 



A. — The general colour of the plumage in this bird is brown, 

 inclining to black above, with cinereous down, and whitish towards 

 the head ; a red bill, with a dusky tip. 



B. — In this the upper mandible is white, or reddish, the under 

 red, with the edges white ; plumage white; top of the head and 

 neck behind deep straw-colour ; between the shoulders, the quills, 

 and tail feathers, dusky brown. 



These two Varieties are mentioned by Gmelin without any refe- 

 rence. A Variety from New-Holland was among the drawings of 

 Mr. Francillon : in this the head, neck, and beneath, were white; 

 back, wings, and tail, black ; bill and legs, which are long, yellow. 



* Forst. Voy. i. 118. Hist, des Ois. 



f Sometimes appear to soar above the clouds.— Amazn. Ac. v. 75. 



% Seen between six and seven hundred leagues from land, in the middle of the Southern 

 Ocean. — Forst. Ohs. 211. Met with in Sandwich Isles. — Ell. Narr. ii. 149. Also, in lat. 



26. 31. north, on the 4th of April.— Id. p. 193. Off Japan and Jesso, October, 1771. 



Cook's last Voy. iii. 391. Lat. 33. south, May 5.— Osb. Voy. i. 109. 



§ Forst. Voy. i. 118. 



|| Trigla volitans.— Ameen. ac. v. p. 75. Arct. Zool. No. 505. 



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