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until near the end, when it is a little decurved, the sides 
ascending, nearly erect, a little convex, the edges sharp, 
the tip extremely compressed, its upper edges decurved. 
Head rather large, ovate ; neck of moderate length ; body 
full. Feet rather short, stoutish ; tibia bare, below scaly ; 
tarsus roundish, reticulated ; toes three, long, slender, outer 
very little shorter than middle, scaly for half their length, 
then scutellate. Claws rather small, slender, slightly arched, 
somewhat obtuse. Plumage full, soft, blended, but rather 
fine, somewhat compact above. Wings very long, and very 
narrow, the humerus and cubitus extremely elongated ; first 
quill longest. Tail of twelve broadly rounded feathers, 
short, rounded. 
457. 1. Diomedea clflororhynchos, Gmee. Yellow-nosed 
Albatross. 
Not figured. 
Bill much compressed, its ridge convex in its whole length, but 
with its basal outline, although semicircular, only half an inch in 
extent, so that between its margins and those of the sides of the bill, 
there is behind the nostrils a space nearly a quarter of an inch in 
breadth ; the ridge in its whole length, the tip of the upper mandible, 
and the crura of the lower along their inferior edge, yellow, the rest 
black; feet yellow; head and neck ash-grey; the -fore part of the 
back shaded into blackish-grey ; wings entirely brownish -black, shafts 
of primaries white, toward the end brownish-black ; hind part of back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts white ; tail deep grey, the bases and shafts 
of the feathers white, loral space of a darker grey than the rest of the 
head, that colour deepening at the fore part of the eye, forming a spot 
which includes the whole of the upper eyelid, and the anterior half the 
lower, of which the other half is white ; lower half of the neck anteriorly, 
breast, sides, abdomen, lower tail- coverts, some of the axillaries, and 
the larger wing-coverts white ; the others being brownish -black. 
Length, 37 ; wing, 21 ; bill, 5i ; tail, 8|. 
Pacific Ocean, not far from Columbia River. 
Diomedea clilororynclios, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 326. 
458. 3. Diomedea nigripes, Aud. Black-footed Albatross. 
Not figured. 
Bill brownish-black, moderately compressed, its ridge very broad 
and convex at the base, its basal outline semicircular and two inches in 
