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nests without the smallest resistance, and soon return 

 again to their post : when irritated the feathers of 

 the cheeks are separated, so as to display a beau- 

 tiful stripe of naked orange skin, running from the 

 corners of the mouth towards the back of the head. 



WANDERING ALBATROSS. 

 (Diomedea exulans.) 



Di. supra Jicsco-riifescens nigricante striata et maculata subtns 

 alha, collo supra et lateribus fusco transversim striatis, remi- 

 gibus majoribus nigris, minoribus redricibusque plumbeo-nigri- 

 cantibus. 



Albatross above brown-red, striped and spotted with dusky, be- 

 neath white, the upper part and sides of the neck transversely 

 striped with brown, the greater quills black, the lesser and tail- 

 feathers dusky-lead colour. 



Diomedea exulans. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 214. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 566. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 789- 



Albatrus. Briss. Orn. 6. 126. Biif. Hist. Nat. Ois. 9. 339. 



pi. 24, Buff. PI. Enl 237. Cuv, Reg, Anim. 1.517. 

 Man of War Bird. Albin . Birds, 3.pl.8\. 

 Wandering Albatross, ^dxv. Glean, pi. 88. Penn. Arctc ZoqL 



2. 423. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 304. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 48. 



The Wandering Albatross is as large as a Swan : 

 length near four feet : extent about ten feet, or up- 

 wards : its beak is dirty yellow : the crown of the 

 head is pale ashy-brown : the prevailing colour of the 

 rest of the body is white, crossed with blackish lines 

 on the back and wings, and with spots towards the 

 rump : the greater quills are black : the tail is dusky- 



