. The water birds of North America . llows : The shell is white, ofloose granular texture, and roughly mammillated surface. There are no markingsbeneath the superficial calcareous layer, and the spots which appear on this seem tobe adventitious stains from the secretions of the oviduct, or accidental soiling afterextrusion. Some specimens show a reddish stain upon the larger end, probably driedblood, since it is readily washed oft. Diomedea albatrus. THE SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS. Diomedea albatrus, Pall. Spic. Zool. V. 1769, 28. Diomedea spadicea, var. B. Lath. Gen. Hist. X. 1824, 52, no. 2, var
. The water birds of North America . llows : The shell is white, ofloose granular texture, and roughly mammillated surface. There are no markingsbeneath the superficial calcareous layer, and the spots which appear on this seem tobe adventitious stains from the secretions of the oviduct, or accidental soiling afterextrusion. Some specimens show a reddish stain upon the larger end, probably driedblood, since it is readily washed oft. Diomedea albatrus. THE SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS. Diomedea albatrus, Pall. Spic. Zool. V. 1769, 28. Diomedea spadicea, var. B. Lath. Gen. Hist. X. 1824, 52, no. 2, var. B. (cites PI. Enl. 963). Diomedea brachiura, Temm. PI. Col. 554 (1828), Adult. Diomedea Irachyura, Lawk, in Bands B. N. Am. 1858, 822. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. 15. 1859, no. 631. — Coues, Pr. Ac. Nat. Soi. Philad. 1866, 177 ; Key, 1872, 325 ; Check List, 1873, no. 578 ; ed. 2, 1882, no. 810. — RlDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. cpomophora, Less. Man. II. 1828, chinensis, , Man. dOru. I. 1820,
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