Not figured.
Bill brownish-black, moderately compressed, its ridge very broad and
convex at the base, its basal outline semicircular and two inches in
extent, so that its sides behind overlap and obliterate the sutural
space behind the nostrils; feet black; fore part of head, cheeks and
throat light dusky-grey, the capistral feathers nearly white, as is a
small patch at the posterior angle of the eye; upper part of head,
hind neck, and all the upper parts, including the wings and tail,
sooty-brown tinged with grey, as are the lower surface of the wings
and the axillaries; lower parts dull grey, deeper on the fore parts
and sides of the neck.
Length, 36; wings, 21; bill, 5; tail, 3.
Pacific Ocean, off California.
Black-footed Albatross, Diomedea nigripes, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 327.