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and in narrow channels. The best chance is to lie 

 up amongst the rocks at some likely spot for two or 

 three hours and await the incoming tide. 



When I was staying at Salen Hotel, Mull, I saw 

 a good many of these Divers, but never got any 

 chance. 



They do not breed around our islands. 



In winter "it is found along the Atlantic seaboard 

 of Europe ; visits the Mediterranean and Black 

 Seas," etc., etc. "In Iceland one or two pairs nest 

 on nearly every lake ; and it also breeds plentifully 

 in the southern districts of Greenland" (Howard 

 Saunders). 



Having been unsuccessful in my attempts to 

 obtain this species, although I had tried very hard, 

 and wanting to complete the series of Divers, I 

 accepted an offer of this bird made to me in 

 Scotland. I did this the more readily, since I had 

 been a good deal associated with the locality where 

 it was obtained. 



CASE IZ 



THE GANNET. 



Order, Steganopodes. Family, PelecanidcB. 



Gannets, or Solan Geese, are fairly well 

 distributed around the coasts of the British Islands, 

 but in the spring they mass together into what are 

 called colonies for breeding purposes. These 



