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Mr. S. Owen Webb, of Streetley Hall, who forwarded it, under the 
impression that it was a species of Gull, to Mr. Travis, taxidermist, 
Bury St. Edmund’s, for preservation. The bird, when captured, 
was uninjured, and in very good condition, bore no marks of 
captivity, but seemed simply exhausted. On hearing of it through 
the Rev. Julian Tuck, I asked Mr. J. H. Gurney to go with me to 
Mr. Travis’s shop to examine it, and to make sure of the species, 
we persuaded him to forward it to Mr. Howard Saunders, who, in 
conjunction with Mr. Osbert Salvin, pronounced it to belong to the 
above species. It is, I believe, the first instance of the occurrence 
of an Albatros in the British Isles, though a bird of the same 
species was shot in the Faeroe Islands (‘Ibis,’ 1896, p. 136), and 
others are referred to by Mr. J. A. Harvie- Brown and Mr. II. L. 
Popham (‘Zoologist,’ 1894, p. 337), as having been met with in 
that same portion of the Atlantic Ocean. In the present specimen 
which appears to be an adult bird, the superciliary mark is scarcely 
perceptible, consisting of a very indistinct tinge of grey on the 
feathers over and in front of the eye, in which respect it seems to 
resemble the one killed in the Fmroes, and there is another peculiarity 
which, strange to say, is not mentioned in the British Museum 
Catalogue, vol. xxv. p. 447, and that is, that the whole of the 
outer web of the outside tail feather is white, or whitish, a very 
conspicuous feature when the tail is spread. The following note 
was made by Mr. Gurney and myself from the specimen shortly 
after it was mounted. 
inches. 
Length — following outline of mounted specimen 
along the back from tip of beak to end of tail ... 2d.3 
Wing, closed from bend to tip ... ... ... 17.0 
Bill, along ridge to tip following the curve ... 4.2 
Tarsus, iu front ... ... ... ... 2.4 
„ behind ... ... ... ... 2.9 
Expanse (teste Mr. Travis) about ... ... 84.0 
Number of tail feathers, twelve 
Soft parts as described to us by Mr. Travis, and so far as we 
could judge ourselves: bill, pale lemon yellow, along the culmen, 
passing into brownish black at the bend towards the tip for about 
one inch, the extreme tip for about half an inch pale whitish horn, 
remainder brownish orange; legs and feet fleshy blue. — E. A. Butler, 
Lt.-Col. 
