GANNET. 



{Sula bassana, Lacepede. Bonap. Synops. No. 359. S. alba, Temm. 

 Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 905. Pelecanus bassanus, Linn. Lath. Ind. ii. 

 sp. 26. P. maculatus, Gmel. sp. 32. [young]. The Gannet, 

 Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 510. LeFoude Bassan, Buff. PI. En- 

 lum. 278. [adult]. LeFou tacketd de Cayenne, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 

 376. Ib. pi. Enlum. 986. [young].) 



Sp. Charact. — White, crown yellowish; primaries black, the shafts 

 below white ; face bluish. — Young blackish-brown, spotted with 

 white ; beneath brownish-cinereous. 



The Gannet is another of the many marine birds com- 

 mon to both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer 

 season they are extremely abundant on some rocky isles in 

 the Bay of the St. Lawrence, and not uncommon on the 

 coasts of the United States, especially to the south of Cape 



