Important: Safety Warning
This page states that certain wild plants are safe to eat. Its identifications and edibility claims are more than a century old and in some cases simply wrong, and deadly look-alikes exist for many edible species. Never eat a wild plant on the strength of this text.
In addition, this page describes collecting wild birds' eggs, shooting birds for specimens, or similar practices. These activities are now illegal under wildlife-protection laws, including the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and they contributed to the decline of the very species described.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Albatross
a large sea bird, belonging to the procellarida, or petrol family. It is the diomedea exulans of Linnæus.
When young it is of a sooty or brown Win ALBATROSS color, but when mature it is white with black wings. It nests on elevated land, and lays numerous eggs, which are edible. S. of the Cape of Good Hope sailors call it the Cape sheep; sometimes, also, it is named the man-of-war bird. E erything about the great wandering albatross is vast-the wings are enormous, its flight is reckoned by the thousand miles. There is a northern species near Bering Straits.