. Recreations of a naturalist . Natural history. THE LARGEST BIRDS THAT FLY 343 specimens, make any alteration in size; and although the plumage differed through age, it did not afford any sexual ; The late Mr W. Ayshford Sanford, writing of Albatrosses seen during a voyage to Australia, and particularly referring to those skinned and dissected by h\ms&\{ {Zoologist, 1889, p. 387), remarks:— " I have never measured an Albatross which. THE WANDERING ALBATROSS. was more than 11 feet in expanse of wing—I think the exact measurement was 10 feet 10 in.—but I have been conf
. Recreations of a naturalist . Natural history. THE LARGEST BIRDS THAT FLY 343 specimens, make any alteration in size; and although the plumage differed through age, it did not afford any sexual ; The late Mr W. Ayshford Sanford, writing of Albatrosses seen during a voyage to Australia, and particularly referring to those skinned and dissected by h\ms&\{ {Zoologist, 1889, p. 387), remarks:— " I have never measured an Albatross which. THE WANDERING ALBATROSS. was more than 11 feet in expanse of wing—I think the exact measurement was 10 feet 10 in.—but I have been confidently assured by others that they have measured some as much as 14 feet. This confirms the above-mentioned statement ty Dr Bennett. Herr Reischek, who visited and described a remarkable breeding haunt of the Wandering Albatross in the Auckland Islands {Trans. 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 Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928. London : T. Fisher Unwin
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