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On the Flight of Albatrosses and Gannets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 September 2016
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I owe the greater part of the following information about the flight of the albatross to Captain E. H. Gordon, of the P. and O. ss. Company. He has studied these birds during numerous voyages, both on steamers and sailing ships. He has seen them near Cape Horn, the Cape, off the south coast of Australia, and at many other places.
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page 22 no * London, 1914 : Iliffe and Sons.
page 22 no † “ Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger,” pp. 134 and 570.
Cheels, in my experience, never allow themselves to be blown to leeward by a wind. In highly soarable winds, as those of a dust storm, they can glide up wind, forging ahead relatively to the earth. On one occasion at Jharna Nullah, I noticed that as the wind increased cheels showed signs of being carried tail first to leeward. All the cheels that were up thereupon came down by carpal descent and settled. This was not a wind connected with a storm.
page 29 no * Since writing this paper I have been informed that an almost identical method of working out the wind velocity at sea has been used by A. L. Rotch, of the Blue Hill Observatory. An instrument for making the necessary measurements is made by Casella, 147, Holborn Bars, London, E.G.