. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . orum, Tem. 2 Procellaria pelagica, Lin A VES—ALBATROSS. 059 rim on the top of it; they are also excellent divers. It skims along thehollows of the waves, and through the spray upon their tops, at the astonish-ing rate of sixty miles in an hour. They are very clamorous, and are calledby the sailors Mother Carys Chickens, who observe they never settle or situpon the water but when stormy weather is to be expected. They arefound in most parts of the world; and in t
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . orum, Tem. 2 Procellaria pelagica, Lin A VES—ALBATROSS. 059 rim on the top of it; they are also excellent divers. It skims along thehollows of the waves, and through the spray upon their tops, at the astonish-ing rate of sixty miles in an hour. They are very clamorous, and are calledby the sailors Mother Carys Chickens, who observe they never settle or situpon the water but when stormy weather is to be expected. They arefound in most parts of the world; and in the Feroe islands, the inhabitantsdraw a wick through the body of the bird, from the mouth to the rump,which serves them as a candle, being fed by the vast proportion of oil whichthis little animal contains. Wilson supposed the American stormy petrel to be the same as that ofEurope; but Charles Bonaparte has shown that it is a distinct species. Itbreeds in great numbers on the shores of the Bahama and Bermuda isles,and on the coast of East Florida and Cuba. This author enumerates fourspecies of the stormy petrel. THE ALBATROSS. Is one uf the largest and most formidable birds of Africa and South largest, which is called the wandering albatross,1 is rather larger than ! Diomeclca , Lin. The genus Diomedea has the bill very long, stout, edged,•(impressed, straight, suddenly curved ; upper mandible channelled on the sides, and muchhooked at the point, the under smooth, and truncated at the extremity; nostrils lateral)remote from the base, tubular, covered on the sides, and open in front; legs short, withDuly three very long toes entirely webbed ; the lateral one margined ; wings veryloni* andnarrow, with the primary quills short, and the secondaries long. 660 AVE S—WILD GOOSE. a swan, and its wings, when extended, ten feet from tip to tip. The bill,which is six inches long, is yellowish, and terminates in a crooked top of the head is of a bright b
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