374 tuE AhBArm^s^ 



board mmn flieDoselves by firing witli ball 

 at th&iKm!! bM as il feflt^ws th& l^it ; c«ai6 1 saw 

 struck by the deadly shot, tui'iird nn its back, 

 dead, and, as the sbip passed it, \vc coidd see 

 its companions fall upon it eager to make 

 it their prey^ We, Weue Ificjia^ftd to C0|isfitet' 

 ibk wantm ^ a useless destmicittcn^ <d Mr^ 

 life ; but Ins conipainons soenied to r^ard it 

 only in tlie light of a fine, fat, oily prize. 



These birds are sometimes very ravenous, and 

 eTOH when Mhi in several attempts to seize the 

 bdty % the pa^ge^ of ship ^tmgk th^ mt^x 

 hemg tiOO mgid fer tliem, they will persevere, 

 as long as they geeUi to think there is -any chanee 

 of sueeess. 



In 1828, when dissecting the head of the 

 Albatei^ T ote^t^^iiai^eiMediiJi a bony cavity, 

 situated immediately ov^ the ^ibit^ a ^fdid, 

 which was covered above by a dense fascia. 

 The cavity to whieb the gland corresponded was 

 of a semilunar form, and situated over each 

 otUi : at tim anterior fsst of thk ^ntj m 

 pmdbn a tmll poir^n was lelt xneiz](b3«ftaoiis, 

 excepting a minute orifice, pernntting the pas- 

 sage of wliat seemed to ine to be an excretory 

 duct, but the course of which I lost soon after it 

 had penetrated this membrane. The fleor ol' 

 the maty p^ri^ira^Nt hy mnrnmicts uDinute 



