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by different voyagers, at various times, in intermediate places *.
The food is fuppofed to be chiefly fmall marine animals, efpe-
cially of the Mollufca or Blubber clafs f , as well as Flying Fijh J.
2.
CHOCOLATE A.
Deep brown, or chocolate Albatrofs, Cook's Voy, ii. p. n6. 150 I].
Lev. Mu/.
D escrip tion. g I Z E larger than the Sooty Albatrofs. The bill in this bird of
a yellowilh white: irides brown : fore part of the head, round
the eye, chin, and throat, white : the plumage in general of a
fine deep chocolate-colour •, the neck and under parts paleft:
the inner ridge of the wing, and under wing coverts, white ; and
the belly inclines much to white : the tail is Ihort, rounded in
Ihape j that and the wings equal in length: the legs blueifh
white: daws white.
Pla ce ; This bird varies in having more or lefs white about the head,
and in a greater or lefs degree of purity. Seen in the South Seas,
in lat. 37, the end of December.
* Seen between fix and feven hundred leagues from land. In the middle of the
fouthern ocean.— Far/!. 01/ p . 211.-----Met with at the Sandwich IJlands.—Ellis
Narr. ii. p. 149------ Alio in lat. 26. 31. N. on the 4th of April.— Id. p. 193.— —
OH Japan and Je/fo, in QSober 1771.—Cook’s Icf Voy. vol. iii. p; 391.—j_I,2t.
33■ S. May 5.— OJbeck Voy. i. p. 109.
■ f Forjl. Voy. i. p. 118.
| Amcen. Acad. v. p. 7 5. — Arc!• Zool. N° 507.
|| As few of the voyagers have thought worth while to defcribe the birds to
which they have given names, we cannot always be clear of the fpecies meant :
are therefore not quite certain it was the one here defcribed.— Chocolate Albatrofs
alfo mentioned by Forfter\ but were not obferved by him, except among
the ice.— Voy. i. p. 258.— —Perhaps the Albatro/s with a white, beak.-—Park.
Voy. p. 83. 84 ?
Br..
Br.Muf
T E N G T H three feet: breadth feven. The bill four inches
long, hooked at the end, but not very ftout; the colour o f
it is black, except the upper ridge, which is yellow the whole
length, quite to the tip, where it is hooked ; the bafe of the under
mandible is alfo yellow : irides brown : the head is grey :
between the bill and eyes is an obfcure black fpot; juft over the
eye a dulky one : the hind part of the neck dulky, the lower
part white : back, fcapulars, and wings, dulky blue black: rump,
and under part of the body, white: the tail dulky: the legs are pale
yellowifh white; the fore part of them, and the webs, dulky.
This fpecies is met with in the fouthern hemifphere, from 30
to 60 degrees, all round the pole*. The fpecimen from whence
the above defcription was drawn up, was taken off the Cafe af
Good Hofe. Inhabits the South Seas without the trpfics. Fly
about five or fix feet above the furface of the water.
Sooty, or brown Albatrofs,. Forft. Voy. i. p. 91.
Albatrofs with a white eye-brow, Coot’s Voy. i. p. 38 f .
C I Z E of a Goo/e: length near three feet. Bill black : irides
^ pale yellow : at each angle of the eye a ni&itating membrane t
/vonoroi r-nlnur r»f tVi#» ninmacrp hrown : the head and tail inclin-
• One was caught in lat. 57. 30. S. in the month of February.
Perhaps the black-billed Albatrofs of Park. Voy. p. 84 ?— In Forjl. Voy% i.
p. 91. it is called the leaft of the Albatroffes ; and therefore may prove the fmaller
one with a black face, met with off Kerguelen's Land in the month of December.
Cook's lafl Voy. i. p. 87.
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