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PALMIPEDES. 



Family PROCELLARIID^. f Bmaparte.J 



Genus DiOMEDEA. f LinncBUS.J 



YELLOW-NOSED ALBATEOSS. 



Diomedea cJilororhyncos. 



Biomedea clilororhyncos, Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 



" " Latham; Ind., 1790. 



Alhafros clilororhynque, Of the Feench. 



Specific Characters. — Beak medmm sized, black, yellow at tlie 

 tip, and along the upper ridge and the base of the lower mandible; 

 between the bill and the eyes an obscure black spot, and jusfc 

 over the eye a dusky one. Length three feet; expanse of wing 

 seven feet; bill four inches. 



This species of Albatross inhabits the South Seas 

 beyond the tropics, and has occurred still more rarely 

 than the last in European seas. Two instances are, 

 however, mentioned by Esmark (Degland, "Orn. Eur.," 

 p. 359,) as having been killed near Kongsberg, in 

 Norway, in the month of April, 1837; and therefore I 

 suppose it is entitled to the place given to it by 

 Bonaparte and Degiand among the birds of Europe. 



It ranges, according to Latham, from 30° to 60° in 



