. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 64 PROCELLARIIFORMES his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out to their full extent, and with a hoarse croak, between the cry of a Eaven and that of a sheep, he falls ' souse' into the water. Here he is at home again, breasting the waves like a cork. Presently he stretches out his neck, and with great exertion of his wings runs along the top of the water for seventy or eighty yards, until, at last,. Fig. 18.—Wandering Albatros. Diomedca exidans. x ^. having got sufticient impetus, he tucks up
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 64 PROCELLARIIFORMES his wings, his head goes back, and his back goes in; down drop two enormous webbed feet straddled out to their full extent, and with a hoarse croak, between the cry of a Eaven and that of a sheep, he falls ' souse' into the water. Here he is at home again, breasting the waves like a cork. Presently he stretches out his neck, and with great exertion of his wings runs along the top of the water for seventy or eighty yards, until, at last,. Fig. 18.—Wandering Albatros. Diomedca exidans. x ^. having got sufticient impetus, he tucks up his legs, and is once more fairly launched in the ; ^ D. regia, of the New Zealand seas, has no undulations on the back; the similar D. chionoptera, of the Southern Indian Ocean, has nearly white wing- coverts ; and B. albatrus, of the North Pacific, has buff crown and nape. Of the smaller forms, or Mollymauks (p. 65), D. irrorata, of West Peru, is sooty-brown with plentiful white mottlings and white head ; D. nigripes, of the North Pacific, is the same colour, l)ut shews white only at the base of tlie tail 1 Ens, 1865, pp. 281, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862-; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927. London : Macmillan and Co. ; New York : The Macmillan Company
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