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Numbers of birds came circling round the ship in their rapid flight, or were seen perched on the pinnacles of the bergs, or flying among their caverned recesses albatrosses, snow-white petrels, penguins, and ducks of various sorts. The albatross Diomedea, as Newman called it is the most powerful and largest of all aquatic birds. Its long hard beak is very strong, and of a pale yellow colour.
Xema Jamesonii, WILS. Sterna poliocerca, GOULD. velox, GOULD. Sternella nereis, GOULD. Hydrochelidon fluviatilis. Diomedea exulans, LINN. cauta, GOULD. melanophrys, TEMM. chlororhyncha, LATH. fuliginosa.
Owing to the excessive roughness of the weather, our passage from Rio Janeiro to the Bay of Conception afforded us but few opportunities to add to our collections. A snipe blown out to sea from the Rio de la Plata, a specimen of Diomedea Albatros at Terra del Fuego, a large Salpa, and a Lepas, were all we were able to obtain. The Bay of Conception presents a rich field to the ornithologist.
Its wings, when extended, measuring fifteen feet, and its weight sometimes exceeding twenty to twenty-four pounds. The common albatross is the Diomedea exulans of naturalists. It plumage, except a few of the wing feathers, is white; its long, hard beak, which Is very powerful, is of a pale yellow colour; and its short, webbed feet are flesh coloured.
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