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$4 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
GENUS. 31.) ~D1O MEDEA, 
The bill is flraight, the upper mandible hooked at the 
- point, the lower abrupt, (or ending oe as if it were 
cut of, ) 
~The noftrils are oval, wide, opening fiat aiid on 
| the fides of the beak. 
HE Albatrof has long wings ; and three — 
toes, all placed forwards. It is found at 
fea, in all the warm and temperate fouthern cli- — 
mates. It flies exceedingly high, and feeds on 
Flying-fifh, which, when purfued by Dolphins, 
rife into the air to efcape their.enemy. ‘The tail 
of the Albatrofs is round, and fhort, not forked ; 
_ its thighs are naked, and its wings exceedingly 
oe | 
The Albatrofs is larger than a Swan. Towards 
‘the end of June, Albatrofles are feen in great 
flocks, i in Kamfchatka, and the Kurile iflands, a 
little fouth of Kamfchatka. They come there for 
fifh ; and when they appear, the people know that 
there will be abundance; for large fhoals of fith 
are always obferved to come foon after the Alba- 
trofles. When they firft come, they are very | 
Jean ; _ but mer foon become seis They are very 
:  Berosting 
