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36. DIOMEDE A. Bill ftraight; upper 
mandible hooked at the point, lower* 
truncate ; nojlrils oval, wide, promi- 
nent, 'lateral : tongue v&ry feet 
4-toed, all placed forward. Albatrofs, 
^hite; back and wings with white lines ; bill pale' yel- 
low ; legs fleili-colour j quill-feathers black ; . tail 
founded, lead-coloiir. 
IVandering A. Man of war bird. 
■ Brown, above blackifli ; bill red, tipt with blackifli \ 
down cinereous, v/hitifh towards the head. 
' White ; region of the ftiouldcrs, wings and tail blatkifh- 
brown ; head and upper part of the neck deep draw- 
colour ; upper mandible white or reddifh, lower redj 
with a white keel. 
Inhabits moll feas, but chiefly within the Tropics: 3I — 4 feet 
long ; feeds on filh and raollul'ca: ; is gregarious, and mi- 
grates ; lays numerous white eggs on fhorc, as large as thqfe 
of a goofe, whole white is laid not to be hardened by boil- 
ing ; flelh hard. 
^iU grooved, dirty-yellow ; nojlrils remote from the bale, riling 
out of the furrow; tegs llelh-colour ; tail-feathers 14; 
thighs naked; tilings when extended 10 — 13 ffet* 
Bill whitifh ; body deep chefnut-fcrown j belly pale ; face 
and wings beneath whitilh. Chocolate A.. 
Inhabits the Pacific Ocean ; 3 feet long. 
drills brown ; kgs blueiflr-white ; claws white. 
• Entirely grey-brown ; bill and legs pale. 
Inhabits China : 2-| feet long. 
White ; bill black, keel of the upper m.andible and 
bafe of the lower yellow 5 body above black-blucj 
beneath white. Yellow-nofed A. 
Inhabits the Pacific Ocean ; about 3 feet long. 
Irids brown ; nape and rump white ; legs pale-ycUow, the fore- 
part and connefting membrane dulkvi 
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