s° 
XXXX 1 L ALBA- 
TROSS. 
Ex a 
LXXXIIL AUK. 
Ex* 
WEB-FOOTEIX 
m @ 
With SHORT LEGS. 
Bill, ftrong, bending in the middle, and hooked at the end of 
the upper mandible. That of the lower mandible abrupt, and 
the lower part inclining downwards. 
Nostrils, opening forward, and covered with a large convex 
guard. 
Tongue. 
Toes, no back toe. 
Albatrofs, Edw. LXXXVIII. 
Inhabits the Hands and feas within the Tropics, and as far fouth 
as lat. 67. 15. long. 39. 35. eafb *. Two or three fpecies have 
been added to this genus. 
Diomedea exulans of Linn^us, Albatrofs of Briffon VI. 127. 
Bill, ftrong, thick, convex, comprefted. 
Nostrils, linear, placed near the edge of the mandible. 
Tongue, almoft as long as the bill. 
Toes, no back toe. 
Puffin, Br. Zool. fol. tab. H. 
Great Auk, Br. Zool. II. tab. LXXXI. 
Inhabits the northern parts of Europe , Afia 3 and America ; grega- 
rious in general ; lays only one egg ; thefe, the Grebe , Divers , 
and Pinguinsy while on land, feldom move much. 
* Cook's Voy. L 43. 
Ale a 
