GANNET. 



SOLAN GOOSE. 

 SULA BASSANA. 



Char. Prevailing color white ; head and neck washed with buff; 

 outer wing-feathers (primaries) black. Length about 34 or 36 inches. 

 The young birds are dusky brown, spotted all over with white. 

 A^est. On a cliff of an ocean island, — made of sea-weed and grass. 

 Egg. I ; chalky white, inner shell pale blue , average size 3.10 X 1.90. 



The Gannet is another of the many marine birds common to 

 both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In the summer season these 

 birds 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 Hatteras. 

 On the south side of Long Island and the neighboring coast 

 they are seen in numbers in the month of October associat- 

 ing with the Velvet and Scoter Ducks. In the summer 

 they also penetrate into the Arctic regions of both conti- 

 nents, are seen on the coast of Newfoundland, and occasionally 

 in Greenland. In Iceland they breed and are seen in great 

 flocks. They are also equally common to the northwest coast 

 of America. 



