. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . delicate snow white. The last bird examined was entirely brown, exceptthe upper part of the head, which was white; thebreast and abdomen covered with brown and whitefeathers prettily intermingled. The mandibles of all these specimens, when firstcaptured, were of a beautiful pink colour, except atthe tips, which were of a yellowish white. The in-tenseness of the pink hue subsided when the bird wasreposing on the deck of the ship; but there stillremained a delicate and handsome tint of pink overthe mandible. In the dead bird
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . delicate snow white. The last bird examined was entirely brown, exceptthe upper part of the head, which was white; thebreast and abdomen covered with brown and whitefeathers prettily intermingled. The mandibles of all these specimens, when firstcaptured, were of a beautiful pink colour, except atthe tips, which were of a yellowish white. The in-tenseness of the pink hue subsided when the bird wasreposing on the deck of the ship; but there stillremained a delicate and handsome tint of pink overthe mandible. In the dead bird the beak becamepallid, and at last changed to the yellowish colourobservable in museums. The feet are light bluish;iris brown. The weight of a Wandering Albatross captured byDr. Bennett was twenty pounds, while the skeleton onlyweighed two pounds ten ounces. My figure of this bird is from Goulds Birds ofAustralia. It has also been figured by Buffbn, pi. enl. 237;Vieillot, Gallerie des Oiseaux du Museum, pi. 205. The egg is after a specimen kindly sent by us PALMIPEDES. Famili/ PROCELLARIID^. fBonaparte.] Genus Diomedea. (Linnceus.) YELLOW-NOSED ALBATROSS. Diomedea cldororliyncos. Diomedea cldororliyncos, Gmelin; Syst., 1788. ■ Latham; Ind., 1790. Alhatros clilororhynque, Of the French. Specific Characters.—Beak medium sized, black, yellow at thetip, and along the upper ridge and the base of the lower mandible;between the bill and the eyes an obscure black spot, and justover the eye a dusky one. Length three feet; expanse of wingseven feet; bill four inches. This species of Albatross inhabits the South Seasbeyond the tropics, and has occurred still more rarelythan the last in European seas. Two instances are,however, mentioned by Esmark (Degland, Orn. Eur.,p. 359,) as having been killed near Kongsberg, inNorway, in the month of April, 1837; and therefore Isuppose it is entitled to the place given to it byBonaparte and Degland among the birds of Europe. It range
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