Family DIOMEDEIDjE. 



THE BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS. 



Diomedia melanophrys, Boie. 

 Plate 80. 



A specimen of this Albatross, driven inland and exhausted, was obtained near 

 Linton, Cambridgeshire, in July 1897. ^ breeds on the Chatham, Campbell 

 Islands, and others, in the Southern Hemisphere, and during its wanderings 

 occasionally appears in the North Atlantic, one having been shot in the Faeroes in 

 J893, where for thirty or forty years it had consorted with the Gannets. 



The female usually lays one yellowish-white egg, which is speckled with 

 reddish-brown. 



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