WANDERING ALBATROS . — Diomedea exulans . 
The Wandering Albatros is possessed of wondrous powers of wing, sailing 
along for days together without requiring rest, and hardly ever flapping 
its wings, merely swaying itself easily from side to side with extended 
pinions. Sometimes the bird does bend the last joint, but apparently merely for 
the purpose of checking its progress, like a ship backing her topsails. It is found 
in the Southern seas, and is very familiar to all those that have voyaged through 
that portion of the ocean. Like the petrel, it follows the ships for the sake of 
obtaining food, and so voracious is the bird that it has been observed to dash at a 
piece of blubber weighing between three and four pounds, and gulp it down' 
entire. After this dainty morsel, the bird was not able to rise from the watm, 
but yet swam vigorously after another piece of blubber on a hook, snapped at it 
and was only saved from capture by the hook breaking in its mouth. 
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