^6^ YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



Length about three feet : the beak of a yellowisli- 

 white colour : the irides brown : the fore part of the 

 head, round the eyes, the chin, and the throat, white : 

 the general colour of the plumage is a fine deep cho- 

 colate colour ; the neck and under parts palest : the 

 inner ridge of the wing and under wing-coverts white : 

 the belly is whitish : the tail is short and rounded : 

 the legs bluish-white : their claws white. It varies 

 in having more or less white about the head. Found 

 in the Pacific Ocean. 



YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 



(Diomedea chlororhynchos.) 



Di. rostro nigro supra hasique Jlavo , corpore supra atro-ccBruleo, 



subtus uropygioque albis. 

 Albatross with the beak black, above and its base yellow, the 



body above dark bluish, beneath and rump white. 

 Diomedea chlororhynchos. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 568. Lath. Ind. j 



Orn. 2. 790. 



Yellow-nosed Albatross. Lath. Gen, Syn. 5. 309. pL 94, Lath, 

 Gen, Hist. x. 52. pi. clxix. 



Described and figured by Latham from a spe- 

 cimen said to be in the British Museum, and which 

 was taken off the Cape of Good Hope. " Length 

 three feet : breadth seven : the beak four inches long, 

 hooked at the end, but not very stout ; the colour of j 

 it is black, except the upper ridge, which is yellow 

 the whole length quite to the tip, where it is hooked; 



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