DIOMEDEA CHLORORHYNCHOS, Lath. 
Yellow-billed Albatros. 
Diomedea clilororliynchos. Lath. Inch Orn., vol. ii. p. 790. — Gmel. Edit. Lin. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 568. Linn. Trans., 
vol. xii. p. 490. — Temm. PI. Col. 468. — Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 609. 
Yellow-nosed Albatros, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. v. p. 309. pi. xcix. Ih. Gen. Hist., vol. x. p. .52. pi. clxix. Steph. 
Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiii. p. 262. 
Diomedea chrysostoma, Forst. Drawings, and Lichtenstein’s Edit, of Forster’s MSS., p. 24. 
Wool-wool, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. 
This species came under my observation for the first time on the 24th of July 1838, in Lat. 30° 38' S. and 
Long. 20° 43' W. ; from which period until we reached New South Wales scarcely a day passed without 
the ship being visited by it ; upon some occasions it appeared in considerable numbers, many of which were 
apparently birds of one year old, or at most two years of age, which may be easily distinguished from the 
adults, especially while flying, by the darker colouring of their wings, hack and tail, and by the culmen of 
the hill being less distinctly marked with yellow. 
I have seen this species fairly dive after its prey; not merely immerse itself for an instant, hut having 
perceived an object near the surface, plunge down after it, and, after swimming under water for two or three 
yards, bring it up. 
The Yellow-hilled Albatros is plentiful off the Cape of Good Hope, and in all the intermediate seas 
between that point and Van Diemen’s Land ; I also observed it ofl Capes Howe and Northumberland on the 
southern coast of Australia, and Mr. Gilbert states that he saw it flying about Rottnest Island on the 
western coast. 
In its flight and general economy it greatly resembles the D. melariophrys , with which it is often in com- 
pany. 
Spot before and line above the eye washed with grey ; head, neck, all the under surface, rump, upper 
tail-coverts and under surface of the wing snow-white ; back and wings brownish black ; tail brownish 
slate-colour, with white shafts ; culmen from near the base to the point bright orange-yellow ; remainder 
of the bill black ; irides greyish brown ; feet bluish white. 
The Plate represents an adult male and female about two-thirds of the natural size. 
