YELLOW-NOSED ALBATEOSS. 
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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. 
YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. 
Diomedea chlororhynchos, Gmel. 
(not figured.) 
A skin of this bird was sent to me by Mr. Townsend, who procured it in 
the Pacific Ocean, not far from the mouth of the Columbia river. The 
species is well known, and one which, unlike most of the others, has been 
tolerably well described. 
Diomedea chlororhynchos, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 326. 
Length, 87; wing, 21; bill, 5i; tail, 8i. 
Pacific Ocean, not far from Columbia river. 
Bill longer than the head, nearly straight, stout, much compressed. 
Upper mandible with its dorsal outline much decimate and nearly straight 
for a third of its length, then concave, ascending to the unguis, on which it 
is arched and decurved in the third of a circle, the ridge broad, convex, 
rounded at the base, separated in its whole length by a groove, margined 
below beyond the nostrils by a prominent line, from the sides, which are 
erect and convex, the edges sharp, the unguis decurved, much compressed, 
with its sides flattened, and the tip acute. Nostrils sub-basal, prominent, 
tubular, having a horny sheath. Lower mandible with the angle very 
narrow, reaching to the tip, and having at its extremity a long slender 
interposed horny process; the outline of the crura gently ascending and quite 
