. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. DIOI\IEDEID/E. 753. THE BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS. DioMEDEA melan6phrys, Boic. On July 9th 1897, an exhausted individual of this species was captured on the Streetly Hall Farm, near I>inton, in Cambridge- shire, and was sent by Mr. S. Owen Webb to Mr. Travis, a taxidermist at Bury St. Edmunds (Ibis 1897, p. 625). Through the good offices of the Rev. Julian Tuck, Col. E. A. Butler and Mr. J. H. Gurney, the specimen was sent to London for the inspection of Mr. Salvin and others. Mr. Southwell has neatly remarked that after all the species was only


. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. DIOI\IEDEID/E. 753. THE BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS. DioMEDEA melan6phrys, Boic. On July 9th 1897, an exhausted individual of this species was captured on the Streetly Hall Farm, near I>inton, in Cambridge- shire, and was sent by Mr. S. Owen Webb to Mr. Travis, a taxidermist at Bury St. Edmunds (Ibis 1897, p. 625). Through the good offices of the Rev. Julian Tuck, Col. E. A. Butler and Mr. J. H. Gurney, the specimen was sent to London for the inspection of Mr. Salvin and others. Mr. Southwell has neatly remarked that after all the species was only revisiting the haunts of its remote ancestors, for the bones of an Albatross of medium size, from the Suffolk "red crag" near Ipswich, have been described and figured by Mr. R. Lydekker. For some years past it has been an established fact that birds of this species occasionally reached the Northern Atlantic. On June 15th 1878, Capt. David Gray, of the 'Eclipse' whaler, when in lat. 80° 11' N., and long. 4° E., obtained a Black-browed Albatross, which is now in the Peterhead Museum; while in the log of the 'Eclipse' for May 2nd 1885 there is the record of a bird having been seen in 74° N., which, considering the experience of its observers, may fairly be assigned to the same species. In 1893 a Black-browed Albatross was shot near Mygganaes, in the Faeroes, and from a long account given by Mr. Knud Andersen, it appeared 3 M. 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 Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson


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