D I O M E D E A C H L O R O R H Y N C H O S , Lath.
V ellow-billed Albatros.
Dionedea cU o ro re c to s , Lath. Ind. Om „ vol. I p. 7 9 0 ,-G me l. E dit. L i n . H R - 1 . i. p. 568-L i n n . Trans.,
Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. v. P. 300. PL RBHf l H i s t , vol. x. p. 52. pi. c t a - S t e p b .
vol xii p. *190.—Temm. PI. Col. 468.—Less. T ra ité d Om., p..609.
Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiu. p. 262.
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'ms speeies came under my observation for the first time on the 24th of July 1838, in Lat. 30“ 38' S and
,ong 20-43. W . ; from which period until we reached New South Wales scarcely a day passed without ■ M W by 1 upon some occasions it appeared in considerable numbers, many o f winch wer
pparently bfrds of one year old, or at most two years of age, which may be easdy d.stmgu.sbed from the
I t s , especially while flying, by the darker colouring of their wings, back and tad, and by the culmen
■ ■ ■ i B B H l n o t m e r e l y immerse itself for an instant but having
,erceived an object near the surface, plunge down after it, and, after swimmmg under water for two or
“ The YelbtbilledAlbatros is plentiful off the Cape of Good Hope, and in all the intermediate seas 1 ne euow t a n a . 1 als0 observed it off Capes Howe and Northumberland on the
" h a t be saw it‘ dying about Kottnest Island on the
" flight and general economy it greatly resembles the D. nelanophrys, with which it is often in com-
P7 p o t before and line above the eye washed with grey; head,
tail coverts aid under surface of the wing snow-whiteI back and wmgs brown,sh black , tad brown,sh
slate-colour, with white shafts; culmen from near the base to the point bnght orange-yellow; remamder
lir n nm c ESS • fb b t WllisVl white.