=61 Flat-billed Albatross=, (Yellow-nosed (e), Gray-headed), Gould Yellow-nosed Mollymawk, _D. chrysostoma (culminata)_, A., Indian O., Pacific O., Oregon (cas.) G. of St. Lawrence (cas.). r. _ocean_ 28 Back, wings, tail dark grayish-black; head, neck gray; faint blackish streak through eye; under, rump white; bill black, tip, crest, lower-edge yellow, f., sim. Food see 60. =62 Yellow-nosed Albatross= _D. chlororhynchus_, S. Atl. O., S. Ind. O., A., T. c. _ocean_ 30 Under, head, neck, rump white; back, wings brownish-black, tail brownish; bill black, crest bright orange-yellow, tip blood-orange; faint dark streak through eye; f., sim. Food see 60. 1 1 =63 Sooty Albatross=, _Phoebetria palpebrata (fuliginosa)_, S. Oceans, Oregon (cas.), A., N.Z. c. _oceans_ 29.5 Sooty-brown; white ring almost round eye; bill black; f., sim. Food as 60. F. 31. _Alcidae_, Auk, Garefowl, Puffin, Razorbill, Guillemot, Murre, 28 sp.--22(1)P., 27(6)Nc. ==== The birds of Order IX. are mainly shore birds. There are four chief kinds of these--Terns (Sea-Swallows), including Noddy Terns, Gulls, the remarkable northern Skimmers, which skim along the surface with the lengthened end of the lower mandible in the water, and the bold sea-pirates, Skuas. Fifty-seven Terns and Noddies are found throughout the world. Of these, twenty-one have been recorded from Australian waters. Being powerful flyers, it is not surprising to find that several of the Australian Terns are really Old-World, and even New-World, forms too. Thus the Whiskered (Marsh) Tern is also British. The Caspian, Gull-billed, and Bridled (Brown-winged) Terns are British and American, while the Sooty Tern is found in all tropical and sub-tropical seas. It is one of the famous birds of the world, for it is the "egg bird" of sailors. It retires in large companies to low scrubby islands to breed. Here it lays a single egg on the bare ground. Sailors, tired of ship's fare, often visit these "rookeries." Gould quotes a record of one party which took 1500 dozen eggs on one small island in Torres Strait. Spanish eggers from Havanah take cargoes, which are disposed of at 25 cents per gallon.