. The water birds of North America . y, with dark tips ; feet light gray ; iris dark brown (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 12). 358 THE TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS — TUBINARES. Thalassogeron culminatus. THE YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. Diomedca culminate, Gould, P. Z. S. July 25, 1S43, 107; Birds Austral. VII. pi. 41. — Gray, Gen. B. 1849, pi. 179. — Coues, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1S66, 1S3. — Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 7, 1877, 81. — Kidgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. chlororhyTichos, Aim. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 326; B. Am. VII. 1844, 196. — Lawr. in Bairds B. N. Am. 1858, 822 (excl. syn.). — Baird, C
. The water birds of North America . y, with dark tips ; feet light gray ; iris dark brown (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 12). 358 THE TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS — TUBINARES. Thalassogeron culminatus. THE YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. Diomedca culminate, Gould, P. Z. S. July 25, 1S43, 107; Birds Austral. VII. pi. 41. — Gray, Gen. B. 1849, pi. 179. — Coues, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1S66, 1S3. — Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 7, 1877, 81. — Kidgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. chlororhyTichos, Aim. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 326; B. Am. VII. 1844, 196. — Lawr. in Bairds B. N. Am. 1858, 822 (excl. syn.). — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1S59, no. 632. Hab. Southern, Indian, ami South Pacific Oceans (Gould, 1. c.) ; casual off the coast ofOregon (Audubon). Sp. Char. Adult .■ Head and neck light ash-gray, darker immediately in front of the eyes, paleron the throat, and lading into white on the lower surface of the body ; lower eyelid white. Backbrownish plumbeous, lading gradually into the light ashy of the nape, growing gradually darker. toward the scapulars, which, with the entire wings, are uniform dark brownish slate, or dusky ;rump and upper tail-coverts white; tail hoary slate-gray, the shafts .yellowish white. Shafts ofprimaries straw-yellow, changing to brown terminally. Bill grayish black, the culmen (abruptly)and the lower part of the mandible yellowish white; legs and feet dull Young: Head and neck dark gray ; the bill almost uniform brownish black, with only an indication ofthe lighter color of the culmen (Gould). Wing, inches ; culmen, ; depth of bill at base, ; tarsus, ; middle toe, The individual described by Audubon as the Yellow-nosed Albatross (Z>. chloro- rhynchos), and said to have been procured by Mr. Townsend near the mouth of the 1 Bill black, the culmen horn-color, and the edge of the basal two thirds of the under mandibleorange (Gould, Birds of Australia, pt. vii.). Bill black, with the ridge in its entire length and
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